Ellison's Elision

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Thu Oct 26 05:13:13 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 23:12 -0400, Joe Klemmer wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
> 
> > When I worked at RedHat, we had a team of Oracle people there working on
> > some of the first ports of Oracle to Linux. We used it in support and it
> > sucked. It was the slowest most clunky piece of malware I had ever seen.
> [...]
> > I'm with you, Andy... I personally don't own Larry Ellison squat. It's
> > only a matter of time and a dearth of Government Contracts for his whole
> > yacht to flip keel side up and flounder. I'd open the damn petcocks
> > myself. 
> 
> 	Hey Ric, you need to stop holding in your feelings like this.  It'll
> only lead to a stroke or heart attack.  You must learn to express your
> feelings...  Let them out and not bottle them up inside.  :-P
> 
> 	Seriously, I am in complete agreement with you and Andy.  OC, no one
> gives a flying fig about my opinion.

I thought someone would pick up on my reference to PCFile <chuckles>
Little teeny tiny DOS app worked pretty darn good. Whatever happened to
GeoWorks? There was another nice little suite of applications. Made a
nice little tight desktop. Someone ought to port that to Linux. <g> Ric

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