Richard Williams
Richard Williams
Animator who won a 1989 Academy Award for his work on the live action/animation hybrid film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." "The Thief and the Cobbler" became his unfinished masterpiece.
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth19 March 1933
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There will be a period of indigestion but it wouldn't surprise me to see Oracle back in late 2005 buying somebody else.
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There were so many situations where in the past our kids could have put their chins down, but the entire coaching staff did a super job, ... And our kids kept their heads up, and without a doubt the difference was the second half when we controlled the offensive and defensive lines of scrimmage.
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This looks like a good quarter. It's a huge beat.
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This is traditionally a weak quarter but software right now has just flat-lined. Expectations are pretty low.
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This is a shockwave. Bulls are going to have to sit back and ask if they have baked in too much good news,
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Novell and Red Hat are very expensive stocks, even with their strong growth.
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This could totally backfire. Virus writers are very much driven by the same motivation that makes people climb mountains. To put a bounty on their heads will just increase their notoriety and increase their ego.
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This appears to be about a clash of titanic egos and, at Oracle, there is only one ego that ultimately matters.
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This program is a blessing. If I didn't have this program, I would probably be dead by now. When I got here, I was slowly dying. They provided me with a doctor, and everything turned around.
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The reality is that an Oracle deal would cost PeopleSoft customers. They have a vested interest in keeping PeopleSoft independent,
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The problem is the lawsuit is holding them up from answering the competitive threat.
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That's what is behind Microsoft's interest in AOL. They are looking at combining MSN and AOL, two underperforming assets, cut the costs, and come up with a single productive asset. Both MSN IM and Yahoo IM are on the outs. AOL dominates that market. So this deal has the same idea behind it as MSN/AOL.
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We played as well as we've played all year long defensively for one half, but it's my fault that after being evenly matched in the first half we didn't get it done,
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I really don't have a reason. I've told everyone that I support and respect those who did. That's a very personal choice and there is no right or wrong. I just did not feel, for me, that was something that I needed to do.