I don’t get what you’re saying, spooje. I only speak of ONE goal: to make thge most money possible. I think Larry should do whatever will make the most money for the people who gave him their money. Making the most money and not making the most money are indeed mutually exclusive.
Here’s an analogy: say you hire me to paint your house, and you give me some money to buy paint and supplies, plus some money to compensate me for my labor. You leave for work and come back at the end of the day and notice that your house has not been painted. You call me and I tell you that while I was at the paint store I met this woman with twelve kids all under the age of 2 (hey, it could happen), and they were all hungry, so I took them all out to lunch and then bought them some groceries.
Since all Ellison wants is the customers, and since he plans to throw out the software and the employees who made it, start planning now for a forced migration, either to Oracle’s choice or to one of its competitors.
Shitty choice, either way. Start building your own system now.
You give money to a painter to paint your house, and he paints it and still using the same amount of money, also paints your sheds and garage and picket fence. Everybody’s happy. Then, because he’s a bastard, he goes to a neighbor’s house, forcibly kicks them out of it, paints it, sells it, and splits the money with you. More happiness! Except for the neighbors.
In this case, 7,000 neighbors who contribute greatly to the economic health of an entire city.
Um, dude, how in the hell is that a good analogy for what Ellison wants to do? He’s not going to steal Peoplesoft, he’ll buy it in some fashion. The owners will therefore get value in the exchange, unlike the owners of the house that the painter steals.
Actually, I can’t believe I’m even responding to your post. You obviously are having an emotional reaction to a very simple issue.
The employees at Peoplesoft were never told that they would have jobs for ever and ever. If they wanted to make sure they got something in they event they got fired then they could have bargained for a provision in their employment contracts.