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Oracle founder and longtime Microsoft opponent Larry Ellison believes Microsoft-Yahoo is a good idea. "MSN is modestly successful," Ellison told the New York Times. "It would be a formidable portal combined with Yahoo." Ellison also suggested Yahoo CEO and cofounder Jerry Yang might not know what's best for the company. Company founders, said the guy who's completed two hostile takeovers in the last four years, "sometimes have a hard time separating their emotions from what's best for shareholders."
Ellison to Yang: get over it
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9:42 AM on Thu Mar 13 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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Smells fishy. What does Ellison know about the Internet business? Unless he thinks the acquisition will somehow benefit Oracle...
@yinst: Of course it will be helful to him. M$FT will be fucked up for years.
If Microsoft buys Yahoo, then it is unlikely to buy SAP. A MS-SAP merger would be interesting
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