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Uhh pretty sure owning it through your retirement plan is still illegal. Last a checked even blinded managed trading is not allowed. Of course this could be d

by grumps 14y ago

Uhh pretty sure owning it through your retirement plan is still illegal. Last a checked even blinded managed trading is not allowed. Of course this could be dependent on your firm. Not sure I completely understand why Oracle would want to be in the Hardware business, then again Google joined it via Motorola.

e1ven 14y ago
Isn't Oracle already in the Hardware business, via the Sun purchase? http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers/overview/index.html http://www.oracle.com/us/products/servers/overview/index.htm...
- grumps 14y ago
  forgot about that...
prashanthr 14y ago
i think Dave - see http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/would-oracle-actually-buy-hp/146098 http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/would-oracle-actually-buy-... - and Eric - see http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/03/20/could-hp-reorg-spur-oracle-to-make-historic-takeover-bid/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/03/20/could-hp-r... - have contemplated on the viability of such a deal. I wanted to get your thoughts on Oracle, after the potential acquisition, changing its name to HP.
- grumps 14y ago
  Just regarding the re-naming, not sure if that will happen. From what I hear Ellison is a serious ego maniac. I would doubt that he'd think to change his companies name. Then again I'm not even close to a branding expert.
prashanthr 14y ago
and one more thing to look at, revenue by lines of business http://www.trefis.com/company?hm=HPQ.trefis# http://www.trefis.com/company?hm=HPQ.trefis#
- grumps 14y ago
  interesting, I wouldn't have expected that much from services.