I don't know whether you have 'anti-social' trails here, |
I think people were disappointed in the database number. |
I think that the fluctuations are going to be very hard for the individual investor to keep up with. But our feeling is that Microsoft is a compelling software story at these valuations, and we have an 'outperform' on the stock. Buy-and-hold is a good strategy here. |
I think there's still a wait-and-see perspective. |
It's a tough political environment at Oracle. |
Microsoft is really going back to its roots here. |
Oracle has been and is a database company, and that's where the focus should stay for now. |
Oracle said it wanted to cut costs by a couple hundred million when it announced the deal. I would imagine it will come from a mix of the two companies, but more heavily weighted toward Oracle. |
People should not be overwrought about the unearned balance. |
The database is a little weaker than we expected. |
The miss on earnings is mostly because of margin compression and increased costs. They run this company really fat to begin with, and if they are getting even fatter, it's absurd. |
The swings are going to be very rapid, and they could be somewhat sizeable. |
There is no serious evidence that [Microsoft's] franchise is actively being undermined in any material way at this point. |
This is still a company that is extremely profitable. What people are worried about is whether that ever flows through ... to the benefit of shareholders, or does the company spend that money. |
This shows that three co-presidents is certainly one too many, and may be two too many. It's a tough political environment at Oracle. |