Dearest BEA, my passion for you knows no bounds. Until Sunday. Love, Larry.
Oracle skipper Larry Ellison must have been a difficult child. He just doesn’t seem to get the “no means no” thing until he’s heard it a few times. Oracle’s unsolicited $6.7 billion bid for middleware vendor BEA Systems 10 days ago was met with an instant “no thanks” (see “That Larry — the offer came on a valentine that read ‘BEA Mine’ ”). BEA’s board has since refused to meet with Oracle or submit the proposal to its shareholders, and in a call to its unwanted suitor late Monday, made it clear that wasn’t about to change.
Apparently, BEA didn’t use a firm enough tone of voice. Today, Oracle sent a letter to BEA’s board again extolling the wonderfulness of its offer and pushing BEA to let the shareholders decide. But even Ellison’s patience has its limits, and in this case, the expiration date is Sunday at 5 p.m. Pacific. No response, no deal. And no indication so far that BEA will fall for the “you won’t do better than me, baby” approach.
BEA’s Project Genesis is run by unscrupulous thieves - BEA itself is the biggest thief of all. The recruiter (Vicki Mason) for this project called me for an Architect position because of my SaaS background. The VP (Guy Churchward) during the phone conversation wanted to know every detail about my previous employment in the SaaS company - mainly with regards to the SaaS market requirements and user experience + architecture. After having satisfied his knowledge he asked the recruiter to let me know that he does not see me as the right candidate. BEA is a Java company and my background is in .Net. Obviously they did not need my .Net skills which was very clear from my resume. They had called me just to obtain knowledge about SaaS. Clearly a case of serious Industrial Espionage.
STFU you newb.
Are you serious? How played can someone get? The moral infraction was on your part. Helping a company get the inside dirt on a former employer for hopes of personal gain?
It’s like you f—ed a girl, and you tell your buddy the intimate details hoping to sound cool. It’s not your buddy’s fault that you told.