This reminds me of the Go-Go '80s saga of Michael Milken and the Drexel, Lambert brokerage insider trading scandals.
At the time I worked for the Pacific Stock Exchange on their options trading floor, and it always seemed fishy that whenever big takeover news broke, the DL trader had been trading big in that company days/hours/minutes before Reuters carried the news. The market makers in the pits HATED trading with DL because they knew they were about to get screwed, and sometimes an Exchange official had to compel market makers to make a trade with DL under Exhchange rules.
Just the same, during this period Milken (very young and very rich)and DL were lionized in the press. When the government finally exposed the scandal, it was old news to anyone who worked in the industry.
Perhaps it's instructive ten years later, although Milken is still a wealthy man, he's not a "player" in his industry, and Drexel, Lambert is long gone as a securities firm.
This reminds me of the Go-Go '80s saga of Michael Milken and the Drexel, Lambert brokerage insider trading scandals.
At the time I worked for the Pacific Stock Exchange on their options trading floor, and it always seemed fishy that whenever big takeover news broke, the DL trader had been trading big in that company days/hours/minutes before Reuters carried the news. The market makers in the pits HATED trading with DL because they knew they were about to get screwed, and sometimes an Exchange official had to compel market makers to make a trade with DL under Exhchange rules.
Just the same, during this period Milken (very young and very rich)and DL were lionized in the press. When the government finally exposed the scandal, it was old news to anyone who worked in the industry.
Perhaps it's instructive ten years later, although Milken is still a wealthy man, he's not a "player" in his industry, and Drexel, Lambert is long gone as a securities firm.
I use Sybase db's and I guess I've been spoiled with the Java edition of Sybase's SQL Central for over a year now. I suppose you could use it to admin Oracle dbs as well, given the appropriate JDBC drivers. I'm shocked to find out that Oracle hasn't provided the same for its developers yet. Sybase's EAStudio will be out for Linux shortly, and it's chock full of db tools (including Java and pure HTML Datawindow builders) you can use with any db.
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At the time I worked for the Pacific Stock Exchange on their options trading floor, and it always seemed fishy that whenever big takeover news broke, the DL trader had been trading big in that company days/hours/minutes before Reuters carried the news. The market makers in the pits HATED trading with DL because they knew they were about to get screwed, and sometimes an Exchange official had to compel market makers to make a trade with DL under Exhchange rules.
Just the same, during this period Milken (very young and very rich)and DL were lionized in the press. When the government finally exposed the scandal, it was old news to anyone who worked in the industry.
Perhaps it's instructive ten years later, although Milken is still a wealthy man, he's not a "player" in his industry, and Drexel, Lambert is long gone as a securities firm.
At the time I worked for the Pacific Stock Exchange on their options trading floor, and it always seemed fishy that whenever big takeover news broke, the DL trader had been trading big in that company days/hours/minutes before Reuters carried the news. The market makers in the pits HATED trading with DL because they knew they were about to get screwed, and sometimes an Exchange official had to compel market makers to make a trade with DL under Exhchange rules.
Just the same, during this period Milken (very young and very rich)and DL were lionized in the press. When the government finally exposed the scandal, it was old news to anyone who worked in the industry.
Perhaps it's instructive ten years later, although Milken is still a wealthy man, he's not a "player" in his industry, and Drexel, Lambert is long gone as a securities firm.
I use Sybase db's and I guess I've been spoiled with the Java edition of Sybase's SQL Central for over a year now. I suppose you could use it to admin Oracle dbs as well, given the appropriate JDBC drivers. I'm shocked to find out that Oracle hasn't provided the same for its developers yet. Sybase's EAStudio will be out for Linux shortly, and it's chock full of db tools (including Java and pure HTML Datawindow builders) you can use with any db.