then I saw your sig.
nm.
-Kevin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Schuster, Steven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 12:12 PM
Subject: Oracle vs. PeopleSoft
> Ok, I am a doufus when it comes to investing. Can somebody make sense of
> this.
>
> Here is the background.
>
> Oracle wants to buy up PeopleSoft. Thus ensues an epic battle much like
that
> in LOTR:ROTK...ok so in this battle I would guess that Sauron would be
> Oracle and Frodo et al. would be PeopleSoft. I say this because even
though
> Oracle8i and beyond are the best databases on the planet their
applications
> suck serious wringwraiths....We use 11i Financials...ugh what a disaster
> (moving from single to multi-org)
>
> Anyway, every few months Oracle says they are extending their offer. Ok,
> duh, Oracle took a hunk they couldn't chew. Watching MS does not make one
> MS, I suppose they will need to change their tactics. Regardless if you go
> to www.oracle.com/peopleosft <http://www.oracle.com/peopleosft> and look
at
> the press releases you will see that back in October that had 24 some
> million shares, now only 12...yet they go on to say "tendered in and not
> withdrawn".
>
> Anybody got any clues as to if this means people that once opted in are
> opting out or if these relate specifically to a period of time between the
> two posts. Lawyers are tricky like that....
>
> Dec Release snippet
> "The tender offer was previously set to expire at midnight EST on
Wednesday,
> December 31, 2003. As of the close of business on Friday, December 19, a
> total of 12,395,576 shares had been tendered in and not withdrawn from the
> offer. "
>
> Oct Release snippet
> "The tender offer was previously set to expire at midnight EDT on Friday,
> October 17, 2003. As of the close of business on Friday, October 10, 2003,
a
> total of 24,812,259 shares had been tendered in and not withdrawn from the
> offer."
>
>
>
> <http://intranet>
>
>
> Stephen E. Schuster
> PeopleSoft Administrator
> 2000 Ashland Drive
> Ashland, KY 41101
>
>
> Office Phone 606.920.7447
> Cell Phone 606.831.4590
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marlon Moyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 10:50 AM
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: Americans fingerprinted at Brazil airport
>
> Hmmmm....what kind of name is Camden???? Do we need to send some black
> suits over to your house?
>
> marlon
>
> Raymond Camden wrote:
>
> >>I have to agree with your sentiments. I think that the last
> >>place we are going to be vulnerable is our air travel sector.
> >>We will be attacked somewhere else sometime and then all the
> >>focus will shift to that. It is idiotic, but that is what is
> >>happening. I think it is funny that the news media started
> >>reporting days before New Years Eve about "chatter"
> >>indicating an attack was imminent, and then nothing happened
> >>and they were actually reporting that an attack was thwarted
> >>by our vigilance.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >+1. I've been saying it for a while now (sorry if I sound like a broken
> >record), but if they attacked small towns, even if they didn't do much
> >damage, it would cause a lot of fear.
> >
> >-rc
> >
> >
> >
> _____
>
>
>
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