Ellison Toys with BEA
When your editor was but a young lad, his family had a cat that was a particularly
adept mouser. The cat loved to roam the large field behind its house searching
for rodents of all sorts. When she caught one, she would keep it about half-alive
for a few hours and just toy with it, pretending at times to be indifferent
to its presence, then batting it around and chasing it when it tried meekly
to escape.
Well, right now, Larry Ellison's the cat...and BEA
is the mouse. Oh, sure, BEA's much more than half-alive, but the point is
that no matter how much it tries to run or how indifferent Ellison may seem,
he's going to get his prey...eventually. We'd be surprised if it worked out
otherwise.
Posted by Lee Pender on November 16, 2007