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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