Re: New Solaris announcement
From: joel garry <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 16:09:16 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <604d68a1-e480-441f-ab7b-9d831949585a_at_vy11g2000pbb.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 5, 3:42 pm, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mla..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:58:06 -0700, joel garry wrote:
> > "She has red flags all over her. Monkey business with Goldman Sachs, and
> > a bozo-deal that lost eBay almost $1.4 billion. Whitman buys Skype for
> > 4.1B then sells it to Marc Andreesen-led fund for $2.7B, then Marc sells
> > it to Microsoft for over $8.5B. I'd say they should hire Marc to teach
> > them some deal-making skills. And they got her to the business hall of
> > fame? LOL! Is the there a hall for bozos?
>
> If my memory serves me right, I said something similar when there was the
> ruckus with Oracle declining to support the Itanic chip. Her reaction was
> completely inadequate. I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years Oracle
> ended up owning HP as well. If Larry continues living for 100 more years,
> he'll end up owning IBM, Microsoft and Google, too.
>
> --
> Mladen Gogala
> The Oracle Whispererhttp://mgogala.byethost5.com
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 16:09:16 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <604d68a1-e480-441f-ab7b-9d831949585a_at_vy11g2000pbb.googlegroups.com>
On Oct 5, 3:42 pm, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mla..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Oct 2012 14:58:06 -0700, joel garry wrote:
> > "She has red flags all over her. Monkey business with Goldman Sachs, and
> > a bozo-deal that lost eBay almost $1.4 billion. Whitman buys Skype for
> > 4.1B then sells it to Marc Andreesen-led fund for $2.7B, then Marc sells
> > it to Microsoft for over $8.5B. I'd say they should hire Marc to teach
> > them some deal-making skills. And they got her to the business hall of
> > fame? LOL! Is the there a hall for bozos?
>
> If my memory serves me right, I said something similar when there was the
> ruckus with Oracle declining to support the Itanic chip. Her reaction was
> completely inadequate. I wouldn't be surprised if in a few years Oracle
> ended up owning HP as well. If Larry continues living for 100 more years,
> he'll end up owning IBM, Microsoft and Google, too.
>
> --
> Mladen Gogala
> The Oracle Whispererhttp://mgogala.byethost5.com
/. has noticed the T5 delay, some interesting comments: http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/12/10/04/216242/oracles-sparc-t5-chip-evidently-pushed-back-to-2013
jg
-- _at_home.com is bogus. http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/opinion/2215057/a-year-on-from-steve-jobs-death-apple-and-oracle-face-similar-challengesReceived on Sat Oct 06 2012 - 01:09:16 CEST