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To: mcmiller who wrote (8544)	10/5/1998 7:45:00 PM
From: Michael Olin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 19080

It would have been better (and more responsible) if Reuters noted that this language has appeared in all Quarterly Statements for the past two years. In this market, people are looking for bad news to report and that is what the reporter seized on. This is not news. All oil companies routinely include language to the effect of "if we drill a lot of wells and don't hit oil, the company can go down the drain..." Pharmaceutical companies say "if the drugs don't work, or they start killing people, or our patents are invalidated, we're in deep, deep trouble". This is NEVER reported as news, because it is not (is this rocket science?). It is becoming standard in the software industry to say something like "If Microsoft starts giving away a similar product to put us out of business, they may succeed..." This is to keep the class-action lawyers at bay. IT IS NOT NEWS!!! -Michael

To: mcmiller who wrote (8544)	10/6/1998 9:36:00 AM
From: Bipin Prasad	Respond to of 19080

I sent a mail to Briefing.com yesterday for their "news." Here's their lame excuse: Subject: Briefing.com Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 15:25:38 -0700 For ORCL, perhaps what we should have said is that these comments were going to push the stock price down regardless of what we said. This was in the market before our comments. It is true that ORCL has said this before, but please also note that the 10/15/97 comment also preceeded a very difficult time for ORCL. In this case, the fact that they said it before may not be such a good thing. Remember, in November of 1997, ORCL stock tanked. Briefing.com InSook