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Responsibility / Re: OT
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 15:14:39 -0400
| Original Message:
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| From: Johnson, M=2E
| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 10:23:21 -0800
| To: ORACLE-L@fatcity=2Ecom
| Subject: RE: McCain on Larry Ellison and Corporate
Responsibility / Re: =
OT
| Not defending Ellison for anything,=20
Understood
| but it appears
| McCain is just another politician who is only interested
| in his future and he constantly takes on these "reform
| ideas" and just makes the matter worse
That sounds really cynical to me. Are you just speculating, or
do you have
any info to back that up?
Note that Oracle/Ellison attempted to buy off politicians here
in
Sacramento in order to stop the JLAC (legislative) audit of
Oracle's ELA
with the State of California
Note that Senator Sarbanes was on the same TV program ("Meet
the Press") as
McCain, and generally agreed with McCain that there is a
horrible lack of
corporate responsibility, and that reforming the institutions
designed to
protect the public's interests has been made extremely
difficult by the
influence of corrupt lobbyists and lack of effective campaign
reform
Tim Russert (a rare TV journalist with some integrity) and the
Senators
spent most of their time discussing the issue of putting
executive stock
options on the "expense" sheets so as to more correctly
reflect
profitability (or lack thereof)
Do you think it better serves the investment community for
sleazy corrupt
executives to be able to hide their shenanighans from analysts
and
investors?
| Everyone should accept the fact that we are in a bear
| market and as such all the boats go down
Argh, that is the problem, when you have these outrageous
examples of
greedy, corrupt corporate executives cashing out (***AFTER
COOKING THE
BOOKS***), leaving others to sink
| Everyone should have been smart enough to sell stocks and
| put their money into cash or better yet short stocks
| when it was very clear that in the Fall of 2000 after the
| initial March 2000 sell off that we were going into
| a prolonged Bear market
"Should have been" !?!?!
That isn't really the issue. As mentioned above, the issue was
how excess
greed played out when "the books were cooked" to create a
false impression
of profitability
| Ellison probably took the money and ran when this
| became apparent to him and many others. I know I did.
So (regardless of whether Ellison is a good example, or not),
do you think
that there should be *any* accountability for the social
damage caused by
greed driven unethical accounting practices?
(fwiw, I'm sympathetic to libertarian/"Chicago school" free
market
ideology, but I fear that like its opposite, leftist
utopianism, when taken
to extremes, it doesn't work all that well in the "real
world".)
regards,
ep
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Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 5:53 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
OT - unix
My understanding is that this was the very first time Ellison
had ever sol=
d
Oracle stock, in over 25 years of the company's existence, in
2000, which =
is
the occasion that McCain (and you) are referring to=2E As you
might be aw=
are,
there was a far greater "opportunity" for Ellison to "cash
out" and leave
Oracle dangling in 1990, when the price dropped from around
$20 to $6 almo=
st
overnight after some financial-earning restatements=2E On
that occasion, =
he
would certainly have had prior knowledge of what was going to
happen, to p=
ut
it mildly=2E In 2000, any foreknowledge of a long-term
downturn (26 month=
s
and counting?) would have been worth far more than $700m,
especially to
someone holding several billions in equities=2E=2E=2E
----- Original Message -----
To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-
L@fatcity=2Ecom>
Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 10:13 PM
unix
> Speaking of herds, or at least what is left behind on
> the ground after they pass:
>
> on "Meet the Press" (TV program), Senator John McCain
> said that Larry Ellison cashed out $700,000,000 of his
> Oracle stocks just before they lost most of their
> value (sarcasm: I'm sure he is planning on plowing it
> back into the company, especially improving quality in
> OWS and Metalink)=2E
>
> regards,
> ep
>
>
> On 14 Jul 2002 at 16:28, Alex wrote:
>
> Date sent: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 16:28:18 -0800
> the future
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> <ORACLE-L@fatcity=2Ecom>
>
> > =2E=2E=2E As far as DB vendors targeting linux they move in herds and =
have
> > just finished their linux port from when "linux" was a buzzword=2E
>
> =2E=2E
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