Time for Leftovers...Top 11 leftovers

Because the people they're chewing up and spitting out now are just too hard and crunchy. -- Dalton Smith

I better buy them before Bill Gates gets around to it.-- Eric Keown

Just like Gordon Gekko, "Because I can!"-- Mark Aninao

Number 10 on his Top Ten List of Competitors I Want To Destroy (Microsoft appears nine times as #1-9)-- Mark Aninao

Larry Ellison doesn't really want PeopleSoft, he just doesn't want

PeopleSoft to be bigger than Oracle.-- Douglas Bartsch

If you can't beat'em, Buy'em-- Bruce Weymouth

To determine the exact size of a corner.-- Marc Gartenberg

Sponge Bob told him to "It's got People in the title!"-- Nicholas Hart

Really wanted JD Edwards so he can rename company to J-DOE and cut a record deal-- Nicholas Hart

Heard it could cure baldness -- Nicholas Hart

His pals in government say its OK -- Nicholas Hart

Was told they have free Viagra for all employees -- Nicholas Hart

Wants their Yacht -- Nicholas Hart

Wants to be a better not richer man -- Nicholas Hart

This name is actually what he thinks of his customers -- Nicholas Hart

Become the biggest 'ERP' -- Nicholas Hart

Make Bill Gates mad -- Nicholas Hart

I wanted to buy them before that Bill Gates did! -- David Pierson

Since Oracle can't beat PeopleSoft on a feature basis, they want to buy the best!-- Suzanne Kaneda

The name Oracle sounds like the company has all the answers and the name PeopleSoft sounds like it is easy to use.-- Jason Wankerl

Because Safra asked him "why are our people soft"? He heard - "buy peoplesoft".-- Tim Peterson

Because Larry is Larry.-- Victor Adamson

Likes the name as it implies that humans are soft. -- Chris Devine

Because Larry thinks he can buy goodwill. -- Victor Adamson

While he was water-skiing behind a blimp, a mermaid swam up next to him and told him that $16 a share was a fair price for PeopleSoft. -- Andy Nowak

I guess he thought that if Bill Gates had Micro-soft, he should have something-soft, too -- Duke Walls

PeopleSoft? I thought you said soft people like the rest of my senior management team. -- ron guyer

(sound of dice rolling) Come on! Daddy's cubicle needs a new dry erase board - and Throne. -- Patrick Bodayle

Instead of the "Jones", he wants to keep up with the "Gates". -- Steve Harvey

Being "Big", he wanted to buy the "Middle" and get the "Small" thrown in for free. -- Steve Harvey

Thought he was helping a long lost relative named J.D. Edwards. -- Steve Harvey

Martha Stewart gave him a hot stock tip. -- Steve Harvey

When Conway left Oracle for Peoplesoft, Larry sternly said.."You'll be back" --Neal Greenberg

Larry's analyst told him to take it easy and spend some time out in the country --Neal Greenberg

He wanted PeopleSoft's "good deal" to expand into the Stockton/Lathrop area. --Nancy Moldoch

He was tired of SCO getting all the free publicity. --Michael Andrews

He heard Bill might be looking to buy it. --Jim Coursey

Is trying to keep up with the Gateses in the world domination game. -- Carol Hammond

He needed some professionals who REALLY new how to design a Realtional DataBase. -- Ed Weingartner

He wants to increase competition by reducing the number of software vendor by 1. -- Hien Ly

"Cause I want what I want, when I want, how I want, without anyone asking what I want!" -Larry Ellison -- Jeff Murdoch

So he can rename the merged company to "Oralsoft" -- Estevan Roman

Always wanted to use the Dilbert Line "Get ready to be assimilated" -- Vishal Shirodkar

How could he explain PeopleHard to his wife? -- K. A. Riley

Larry was jealous of Bill's antitrust case and wanted his own. -- Dan Cale

Wanted to soften his image to get more women. -- Henri De Roule

Pretend he has acquired half of MicroSoft. -- Barry T. Drake