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Time for Leftovers...Top 11 leftovers: Page 2 of 2

Another issue, another offering of Top 11 submissions that couldn't quite fit our Last Mile page, but were too good to pass up. This time, we asked folks for the "real reasons Larry Ellison wants PeopleSoft." Because the people they're...
July 22, 2003
  • 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

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