- Tom Henderson makes, maybe, 6-7 digits. Larry makes at least 8-9. - In the past 5yrs, Oracle stocks have been going up (bluechip and all that), going from 17.74 to the current 28.86. Was 28.86 1yr ago
One of them if right about Oracle's business practices, the other is wrong.
And lets not forget:
tomhenderson wrote Oracle has a Sun spot: Oracle is pushing itself into a corner, a fantastic money-making corner, but a corner nonetheless.
So let me make my prediction. In the next 12 months, Larry will increase his
I'd like to offer the obligatory MS comparison. You can't argue that Microsoft didn't make many wrong decisions (Zune, Windows Mobile, etc over the past ten years. Yet there is Balmer still in charge making more money than I am. Microsoft still makes heaps money. You don't need to make more money than people to recognize bad decisions. That would logically require us to make all elections a wealth measurement exercise.
Perspective (Score:1)
- Tom Henderson makes, maybe, 6-7 digits. Larry makes at least 8-9.
- In the past 5yrs, Oracle stocks have been going up (bluechip and all that), going from 17.74 to the current 28.86. Was 28.86 1yr ago
One of them if right about Oracle's business practices, the other is wrong.
And lets not forget:
So let me make my prediction. In the next 12 months, Larry will increase his
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I'd like to offer the obligatory MS comparison. You can't argue that Microsoft didn't make many wrong decisions (Zune, Windows Mobile, etc over the past ten years. Yet there is Balmer still in charge making more money than I am. Microsoft still makes heaps money. You don't need to make more money than people to recognize bad decisions. That would logically require us to make all elections a wealth measurement exercise.
Re:Perspective (Score:2)
Did you read TFA ?
Analysts (like the one on TFA) are not talking about specific products. They are talking about company-wide strategic/business decisions.
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Product development costing billions of dollars are not strategic decisions?