>>>News reports have Oracle Corp saving 1 billion dollars by deploying their own technology. At first, I thought this is great.... but shouldn't they have done this in the first place? How can they expect their customers to buy something that they haven't deployed. Sheesh.
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>>>http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2522395,00.html
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>>Now I can expect my portfolio value to rebound some. :]
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>What was dragging it down? MS stocks?

Nah. Fairly diverse. Just general overall market downturn 2 weeks ago. But I do have almost 1000 shares of Oracle. Fortunately, most of those shares came from 3 splits over last few years.