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Oracle slips notes to Wall Street

Tim Spence

Padding 

FAIL

Well done, you spluttered 300 words of nonsense to basically say:

"Oracle have issued $4.5 billion of notes to fund the purchase of Sun. $1.5bn in notes that pay out 3.75 per cent interest per year that are due in 2014, $1.75bn in notes that pay 5 per cent and are due in 2019, and $1.25bn in notes that pay 6.125 per cent that are due in 2039."

Do you get paid by the word or something?

Angus 2

@Tim Spence 

Joke

Lol you could say that about pratically any article anywhere.. However if anything longer than a few sentences annoys you, have you heard of this thing called Twiiter. :)

Anonymous Coward

3.75% and they think they'll close a deal? 

Well, maybe Wall Street has lost all financial bearing. The inflation rate in the US is likely to exceed that by a substantial amount by the end of next year. Who wants to bet money on a sure loss?

Tim Spence

@ Angus 2 

Not really, most articles contain stuff called "news", which normally makes up the majority of the content, as opposed to 80% padding.

Heck, I like comedy padding as much as the next guy, but even this article could have been expanded with more useful stuff, as opposed to a walk through of a film which no one has seen, and which has a barely tenuous link to the actual main content.