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Oracle Investigation Grows
VValdo writes "Department heads resigning, millions of dollars wasted, documents shredded, the government investigating. No, it's not Enron-- as previously reported, the $95 million contract with Oracle is blowing into a full-fledged scandal in California, according to today's LA Times, The article begins, "California Highway Patrol officers moved in Thursday to halt shredding at the state's information technology department, and Gov. Gray Davis suspended the agency's chief amid a widening investigation of the state's multimillion-dollar computer contract with Oracle Corp.""
Governor Reagan would never have let that happen. Hell, if the state was hurting for money, he'd probably just sell some guns and stuff to the Nicaraguans again.
Do daemons dream of electric sleep()?
If Oracle was GPL it just might cause a mass-exodus to open source.
Truly this would be a reason to convert. Far fetched maybe, but who knows? The gesture on the part of Oracle would be remarkable indeed.
Nor would I. Postgres is up to the task but MySQL isn't quite there yet.
Seastead this.
The Republicans are the party of Watergate and Iran/Contra.
Iran/Contra was not a crime. And once again, the Democrat brings up something from a quarter of a century ago.
Not to mention massive deficits from tax breaks for the rich.
You mean the tax breaks that eliminated taxes on the poor? You mean the tax breaks that eliminated tax shelters? You mean the tax breaks that doubled the revenues to the government during the 80s? You mean the massive deficits that were caused by the DEMOCRATS who were in power in congress at the time? Yes, congress creates the budgets.
After investigating Democrats for the last 8 years, the worst they came up with was a blow job!!
No one ever said Clinton wasn't smart. Of course, only Democrats believe that it's OK for the President of the United States to abuse his power to take advantage of interns.
Not to mention that he was found guilt of lying under oath. But hey, who cares if the guy whose in charge of enforcing the laws lies in court?
Daschle a liar? Can you come up with even ONE example of Daschle lying?
Oh, how about Daschle blaming the recession on Bush when it began before Bush was in office? He knows he's lying, but it sounds good. If you need more evidence, feel free to do a search on Google for "daschle lies". Lots of people document them.
And talk about rigging elections - this Republican president LOST THE ELECTION!
Uh, no, he didn't. He only loses the election if you shred the constitution and ignore the law. But hey -- Democracts have never minded ignoring the law, have they?
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.