About the only real thing he's beaten Gates at is sleaze, due to the lobbying organizations, the dumpster diving private investigators, the need to land his private jet any time and place he damn well wants.
If Ellison has taught us anything, it's that if the rules aren't helping you, change the rules.
When IBM beat everyone at the database benchmarks using Win2k clusters, Ellison lobbied to have the benchmarking criteriae changed.
When he got chewed out for landing his jet during nighttime hours, he lobbied to have the local noise ordinances changed.
Finally, when guilty of easily as much price fixing, price gouging, contract exclusionism, and just plain anti-trustworthy nastiness, he had the balls to sic the feds on Microsoft using his private lobbying organizations.
I guess the #2 scumbag does try harder... |
