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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (8589)	10/7/1998 10:08:00 AM
From: MeDroogies	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19080

You are free to post, obviously, but Michael has a point. This is a free exchange of information. Anything that insinuates particular information WITHOUT backing it up is one of two things: 1. an attempt to mislead 2. a sales pitch You may have this information, and legitimately so. You may also legitimately say we can all find it. Unfortunately, like me, many of us don't have the time to troll through pages of documents all the time following what (50% of the time) are misleading posts meant to distract investors. I'm not calling you a pitchman, telling you to stop posting, or saying "I'll ignore you". I am merely pointing out that this is a OPEN forum for the FREE exchange of information and ideas. If you have some useful information, please SHARE. That is the essence of SI.

To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (8589)	10/7/1998 10:38:00 AM
From: Michael Olin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 19080

I did not intend to suggest that you do anything for me on your time. I assumed, since you suggested that Oracle's earnings were artificially inflated by asset sales: they sold over 800 million dollars in assets this past quarter (my bet is that they wanted to artificially boost earnings since most investors don't know better than to avoid earnings analysis), that you had already assembled the hard data to back up that contention and that the task in question had already been performed. An article stating that this is a common practice does not show me where the $800 million of assets that you say Oracle sold can be found in their financial statements. If your contention is that you discovered this information in publicly available filings through your own hard work and we should do the same, that's fine too. Thanks for sharing. I'm sorry about my erroneous description of your web site. You are selling software, not subscriptions. -Michael