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Ten deep breaths, Ellison.

December 20, 2008

In through the nose, out through the mouth.  That was the secret to anger management that my therapist taught me after an unfortunate incident involving ice cream, a six year old, a silk tie and a beluga tank.  You’d think with all the money he has Larry Ellison could afford someone who’d give him the same advice.

When a company with a 91.5 billion dollar market cap comes out and declares a 4 billion dollar company it’s “combat challenge” of the quarter, you’ve just got to wonder if there’s not a bit of vendetta in that.  Isn’t Oracle this massive company with arms spiralling off in all directions?  And at that size isn’t it capable of offering such a variety of services that if Salesforce pulls up and becomes a new household name that it can’t just do something else?

Set your sights on Microsoft, IBM or SAP Ellison, bigger ankles to nip at and more inferior services to usurp!  You can do it!  ”Oracle Messenger.”  I’m waiting for it.

ELLISON: “Let us taunt it. It may become so cross that it will make a mistake.”
HENLY: “Like what?”
ELLISON cannot find a suitable answer to this.

(Quote c/o Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

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