Time for Leftovers...Top 11 leftovers

Another issue, another offering of Top 11 submissions that couldn't quite fit our Last Mile page, but were too good to pass up. This time, we asked folks for the "real reasons Larry Ellison wants PeopleSoft." Because the people they're...

July 22, 2003

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Another issue, another offering of Top 11 submissions that couldn't quite fit our Last Mile page, but were too good to pass up. This time, we asked folks for the "real reasons Larry Ellison wants PeopleSoft."

  • Because the people they're chewing up and spitting out now are just too hard and crunchy. -- Dalton Smith

  • I better buy them before Bill Gates gets around to it.-- Eric Keown

  • Just like Gordon Gekko, "Because I can!"-- Mark Aninao

  • Number 10 on his Top Ten List of Competitors I Want To Destroy (Microsoft appears nine times as #1-9)-- Mark Aninao

  • Larry Ellison doesn't really want PeopleSoft, he just doesn't want

  • PeopleSoft to be bigger than Oracle.-- Douglas Bartsch

  • If you can't beat'em, Buy'em-- Bruce Weymouth

  • To determine the exact size of a corner.-- Marc Gartenberg

  • Sponge Bob told him to "It's got People in the title!"-- Nicholas Hart

  • Really wanted JD Edwards so he can rename company to J-DOE and cut a record deal-- Nicholas Hart

  • Heard it could cure baldness -- Nicholas Hart

  • His pals in government say its OK -- Nicholas Hart

  • Was told they have free Viagra for all employees -- Nicholas Hart

  • Wants their Yacht -- Nicholas Hart

  • Wants to be a better not richer man -- Nicholas Hart

  • This name is actually what he thinks of his customers -- Nicholas Hart

  • Become the biggest 'ERP' -- Nicholas Hart

  • Make Bill Gates mad -- Nicholas Hart

  • I wanted to buy them before that Bill Gates did! -- David Pierson

  • Since Oracle can't beat PeopleSoft on a feature basis, they want to buy the best!-- Suzanne Kaneda

  • The name Oracle sounds like the company has all the answers and the name PeopleSoft sounds like it is easy to use.-- Jason Wankerl

  • Because Safra asked him "why are our people soft"? He heard - "buy peoplesoft".-- Tim Peterson

  • Because Larry is Larry.-- Victor Adamson

  • Likes the name as it implies that humans are soft. -- Chris Devine

  • Because Larry thinks he can buy goodwill. -- Victor Adamson

  • While he was water-skiing behind a blimp, a mermaid swam up next to him and told him that $16 a share was a fair price for PeopleSoft. -- Andy Nowak

  • I guess he thought that if Bill Gates had Micro-soft, he should have something-soft, too -- Duke Walls

  • PeopleSoft? I thought you said soft people like the rest of my senior management team. -- ron guyer

  • (sound of dice rolling) Come on! Daddy's cubicle needs a new dry erase board - and Throne. -- Patrick Bodayle

  • Instead of the "Jones", he wants to keep up with the "Gates". -- Steve Harvey

  • Being "Big", he wanted to buy the "Middle" and get the "Small" thrown in for free. -- Steve Harvey

  • Thought he was helping a long lost relative named J.D. Edwards. -- Steve Harvey

  • Martha Stewart gave him a hot stock tip. -- Steve Harvey

  • When Conway left Oracle for Peoplesoft, Larry sternly said.."You'll be back" --Neal Greenberg

  • Larry's analyst told him to take it easy and spend some time out in the country --Neal Greenberg

  • He wanted PeopleSoft's "good deal" to expand into the Stockton/Lathrop area. --Nancy Moldoch

  • He was tired of SCO getting all the free publicity. --Michael Andrews

  • He heard Bill might be looking to buy it. --Jim Coursey

  • Is trying to keep up with the Gateses in the world domination game. -- Carol Hammond

  • He needed some professionals who REALLY new how to design a Realtional DataBase. -- Ed Weingartner

  • He wants to increase competition by reducing the number of software vendor by 1. -- Hien Ly

  • "Cause I want what I want, when I want, how I want, without anyone asking what I want!" -Larry Ellison -- Jeff Murdoch

  • So he can rename the merged company to "Oralsoft" -- Estevan Roman

  • Always wanted to use the Dilbert Line "Get ready to be assimilated" -- Vishal Shirodkar

  • How could he explain PeopleHard to his wife? -- K. A. Riley

  • Larry was jealous of Bill's antitrust case and wanted his own. -- Dan Cale

  • Wanted to soften his image to get more women. -- Henri De Roule

  • Pretend he has acquired half of MicroSoft. -- Barry T. Drake

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