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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (28507)	9/22/2003 3:46:37 PM
From: laura_bush	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

Ellison. LOL. I think a lot of tech CEOs are just like Larry. They don't give a shit. Why would they? They've got theirs. All that we now see re the DELLs and ORCLs and the HPQs and the WCOMs (forgive me, now MCI -- again) are fabulously wealthy founders. What else MATTERS, Lizzie Tudor? lb

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (28507)	9/22/2003 4:05:52 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Meanwhile other stocks go up and Oracle goes down. ORCL's stock is up 52% in the past 12 months. Moreover, it did over $9 billion in sales and generated over $3 billion in profits, paying over $1 billion in us corp income tax. So what's the problem? Not a big enough company for you?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (28507)	12/3/2003 11:14:48 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

Any thoughts on Technology research firm Gartner has predicted that around 50 percent of technology suppliers will go under by the end of 2005, as a period of global accelerated job losses and vendor consolidation takes place. In a media release, detailing its Top Trends for Asia Pacific in 2004, Gartner said the days when the customer is king would end as market forces crushed weaker players. "As many as 50 per cent of technology suppliers will be eliminated from the competitive landscape," said Bob Hayward, senior vice president at Gartner Asia Pacific. "For example there are currently more than 2300 publicly traded software companies in the world, that's about 50 to 60 per cent too many. For those companies that survive, this means that they can focus over the next several years on providing quality and not be price driven." Gartner predicted that Australia's ICT market would increase by four per cent from 2003 to 2004. Spending by businesses on ICT in Australia was the second highest in the region and combining Australia and New Zealand would see a larger market than all of the ASEAN countries combined, it said. Hayward said companies would invest in technology next year to strengthen their business and make them more innovative; IT assets, acquired before the year 2000, would reach the end of their lifecycle and fresh equipment would have to be purchased. "Massive productivity improvements, significant increases in demand and enormous infusions of innovation will occur but on the negative side, hundreds of thousands of workers in developed economies will be displaced, many of them currently holding high-paying, white-collar positions," he said. from theage.com.au lurqer

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (28507)	1/16/2004 12:10:36 PM
From: lurqer	Respond to of 89467

Poll: Dean, Clark top race in California; voters split on Bush Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean and retired Gen. Wesley Clark are battling for first place among Democratic presidential candidates in California with the rest of the field far behind, a new poll found. The same poll found that Californians are roughly split over whether to re-elect President Bush in November. The nonpartisan Field Poll released Friday showed Dean with 25 percent support among likely voters in the state's March 2 Democratic presidential primary, with Clark a close second at 20 percent. Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman had 12 percent support. The rest of the field -- including Sens. John Kerry and John Edwards, Reps. Dick Gephardt and Dennis Kucinich and civil rights activist Al Sharpton -- were all in single digits. Twenty-one percent of those polled said they were still undecided. Field Poll Director Mark DiCamillo said that while the candidates' positioning in California was beginning to solidify, there remain a large number of Democrats who have yet to form strong opinions of the field just six weeks before the March 2 primary . "Part of it is that we went through a historic recall election last year and voters are only now tuning back in," said DiCamillo, referring to the Oct. 7 election that bounced Gov. Gray Davis in favor of Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger. DiCamillo said he expected the candidates' standings to shift in the state after the first major contests in the campaign -- the Iowa caucuses, which take place Monday, and the New Hampshire primary Jan. 27. Meanwhile, the poll showed that California voters are divided over whether to re-elect Bush, with 46 percent inclined to vote in favor of re-election while 47 percent saying no. In the 2000 presidential election, Republican Bush lost badly to Democratic Vice President Al Gore in California, winning just 40 percent of the vote. DiCamillo said those numbers suggest that California and its 55 electoral votes may be up for grabs in November. "Things can change, and likely will once Democrats choose their nominee," DiCamillo said. In hypothetical matchups between Bush and individual Democrats, the poll showed Bush with a slight edge over all the candidates. For example, Bush would beat Dean by a margin of 47 to 43 percent, according to the poll; he would beat Clark 43 to 41 percent. The telephone poll surveyed 929 registered voters over five days ending Tuesday. Preferences in the March Democratic primary were based on 401 Democrats and independents likely to vote. Its margin of error was plus or minus 5.8 percentage points. sfgate.com lurqer