Re: 1 Billion for Ascentail?

nobody wrote: > Man don't you feel ripped off that PG is selling Ass-n-tail for the same > price he sold off Informix to IBM? > > Dont get me wrong, IBM isn't a bad home, however, man, We wuz robbed! > Maybe now IBM realizes the bargin basement price they got for Informix? > > Can you imagine a segment on cash in the attic or antique road show, > where Steve Mills comes in with the informix placard and says he bought > it for a billion? > > Thats akin to finding a masterpiece of modern art at a garage sale for > 15 dollars only for it to be worth 15,000. (You can switch to pounds, > yen, sheckles ... you get the same idea.) > > I wonder if this means that PG is retiring? > > > But hey, what do I know? ;-) > Fine with me -- I hung on to my Informix stock the last time...