On the subject of jokes - posted on the Laughter is the Best Medicine Thread earlier, from the WSJ
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Mark Andreesen Provides List
On Signs Nasdaq Hit Bottom
Is Depression in Tech Over?
Not even close, says Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and now chairman of Opsware Inc. (formerly LoudCloud). While speaking at the Forrester Research forum in Boston last week, Mr. Andreessen provided a tongue-in-cheek list of 10 ways we'll know the tech-dominated Nasdaq stock index has hit bottom. Among the sure signs:
No. 9: "The market cap of Cisco is surpassed by Crisco."
No. 8: Sun Microsystems, which used to boast that it "put the dot in dot-com," changes its slogan to "We put the bank in bankruptcy."
No. 4: Dell adds an "i" to the end of its name and starts selling sandwiches with pickles.
And No. 1: Larry Ellison, chairman of Oracle, who once hired private detectives to search the garbage of Microsoft supporters, starts going through Bill Gates's trash himself so he can "return cans for deposit."
During the substantive part of his speech, Mr. Andreessen said that routers, servers and corporate software all will face "10-X price reductions over the next three years," because of commoditization of routers, cheap Intel Corp. computers and "open source" databases -- threatening the profits of Cisco Systems Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc. and Oracle Corp., respectively. |
