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Is the biggest yacht worth it?

My brother and I have always enjoyed the exploits of Larry Ellison. He has been quasi-battle with Paul Allen of Microsoft fame for the largest yacht in all of IT. However, exactly how big a yacht can you have before you have to dock with the Navy's aircraft carriers instead of the "beautiful people".

Ellison has also been in battles with various CEOs over the biggest IT company. My brother and I chuckled at the "victory" over Tom Siebel with Ellison's $5.85b purchase of Siebel Systems. We both guess that Tom ( ... like we can call him tom... ) was cordial, said thanks and cashed that "check" with a smile on his face and was probably thinking "have fun docking Oracle 'somewhere'...".

This week's news of a Verizon Wireless/Vodaphone - Alltel merger made me think of Larry Ellison. Yep. Verizon Wireless is now bigger than AT&T Wireless. Great. I'm not sure that makes Verizon Wireless better or worse than AT&T, but I'm guessing that AT&T will try to make their "yacht" bigger just to say that they can.

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  Posted by jmyers on June 6, 2008 8:00 AM |

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