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Oracle and BEA swap public love letters

Mark_T

Ahhhh, of course.. 

BEA's directors want their palms crossing with silver, some Oracle shares and their jobs guaranteeing for two years.

Only then will it be in the shareholder's interest to accept the deal.

amanfromMars

Perfumed Garden Flowers ..... or Perfumed Gardens Flower? A MetaDataMine of a Difference 

Hmmm? That was very clumsy of Larry not to have foreseen that Play. BEA must have a sniff of something else in the AIr.

Sean Buckley

Still don't understand... 

Flame

...why we can't have a Larry as a devil icon. You don't need a saintly one to balance.

On another note, is it just because Oracle can't sort out its Fusion Middleware strategy that it needs to buy Aqualogic?