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Technology Stocks : Oracle Corporation (ORCL) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jesus A. Castillo who wrote (7796)	7/11/1998 8:15:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 19080

To JAC et al: Perhaps someone can explain why ORCl's receivables are 50% higher than MSFT's while their revenues are only 45% of MSFT's. Additionally their cash is about 1/10th. ORCL is surprisingly weak when it comes down to buying other companies given their present share price. I became curious about these figures when trying to see whether or not they could buy MANU. I decided they can't but these other discrepancies caught my eye. Any thoughts? I use MSFT as a bench mark for a well managed software co. JFD