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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (7970)	7/25/1998 3:52:00 PM
From: John F. Dowd	Respond to of 19080

Why?

To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (7970)	7/26/1998 11:27:00 AM
From: Michael Davis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 19080

If only Larry had Michelle as an advisor. >>Ellison is by turns apologetic about the mistakes of the past and fired up about Oracle's prospects for the future. He concedes that he should have gotten a grip on the applications business earlier. He saw the problems last fall but says: ''I thought I could delegate.'' And he realizes that focusing so much on network computers hurt his company. He should have been talking about how databases are essential for Internet computing. ''It was a huge communications gaffe, and I blame myself for it,'' he acknowledges.<< from the Business Week article.