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Re:Larry Ellison Buys Most of Lanai by bigiain on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @11:06PM (#4140340)
"As Larry Ellison is unlikely to be able to win a war against the United States, I'd say the answer here is also no."

I wonder… "Hey Operations? It's Larry. Shut down all Oracle and Java applications running inside .gov networks. Right now. Every single one."

;-)

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Re:Larry Ellison Buys Most of Lanai by olefoo on Thursday June 21, 2012 @01:16AM (#4140659)
I'm now wondering what sort of mayhem one could cause with vendor access to every Oracle db the US .gov uses, presumably you could forge orders, reorganize parts of the executive and identify and suborn most of the people who would be in a position to stop you...

If he builds a monorail, I guess it'll be obvious.

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Re:Larry Ellison Buys Most of Lanai by malkia on Thursday June 21, 2012 @12:21AM (#4140543)
The govermentwould take over
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