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Oracle Dumps PeopleSoft Employees
curtain writes "The first move in Oracle's dismantling of PeopleSoft has begun. The cuts will affect about 9% of the 55,000 staff of the combined companies.
From the article:
"We're mourning the passing of a great company," Peoplesoft worker David Ogden as saying. Other employees said they would rather be sacked than work for Oracle."
there is an old joke here in germany.
little fritz comes to his dad and asks him: dad, what's the difference between theory and practice?
his father sais: go and ask your sister whether she would sleep with a stranger for a million euros.
little fritz quickly goes asking. he returns and sais: yes, she would.
now ask your mother the same thing, sais his father.
little fritz goes asking and returns with the same answer.
well my son, sais the father. here is the difference. in theory, we are rich. in practice we have two whores in the house.
the morale of the story is: maybe you should get a life and learn the difference yourself.
Conservatism: The fear that somewhere, somehow, someone you think is your inferior is being treated as your equal.