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

To: American Spirit who wrote (10520)	4/18/1999 6:38:00 AM
From: John Wright	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 19079

Here's a cute little ORCL barbershop story I have to share with the thread. Yesterday afternoon, after coming home from San Francisco the day before, I stopped in at the local barbershop for a bit of a trim. I'm sitting around waiting my turn and making small talk about my trip to San Francisco when all of a sudden I notice one of the guys just getting out of the barber's chair is wearing an 'Oracle Applications' T-shirt. Wearing an Oracle Polo shirt myself I tell him I like his shirt and ask him wear he got it. He says he works for so and so company and that his so and so company uses Oracle's database and applications. Needless to say, I take the opportunity to tell him why I think Oracle is such a great company, with great products and a great future. We part ways and the next guy hops in the chair. He asks me more about my trip to San Francisco as he travels quite a bit himself and has been there many times. After some California small talk he starts to tell me that his so and so company, is implementing SAP apps worldwide and that he is personally frustrated and not very happy with the outcome so far. But, being a corporate head office decision there's nothing he can do about it. There's more to it but I won't go into it. Suffice it to say, that when I left the barbershop the whole coincidence of my encounter with the Oracle and SAP guys really surprised me. What also hit home was that the Oracle guy never said one negative word whereas as the SAP guy was clearly frustrated. An absolute true story! And food for thought for the future. John