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To: hueyone who wrote (17738)	1/5/2003 10:59:40 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19079

Larry Ellison was the highest paid executive in fiscal 2001, exercising options worth 706 million. This is true because these were options granted in 1991 which were expiring and Larry had to excercise or lose them. I'm sure most on these boards remember Oracle in 1991... just one of 3 "database tools" vendors vying for the same mkt... sybase, oracle and informix. At that time, it was sybase with the wind at his back. So here is the problem with options... would I, as a shareholder prefer to own informix or sybase stock with executives that owned less of their respective companies and consequently were paid less? Same situation with Siebel, once merely a player along with vantive and scopus. What happened to those other guys anyway? Lizzie