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Ellison resigns from Apple Board of Directors

updated 11:45 am EDT, Fri September 20, 2002

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Apple today announced that Larry Ellison, chairman and chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation, is resigning from Apple�s Board of Directors: "I will continue to offer my advice to Steve and the executive management team at Apple, but my schedule does not currently allow me to attend enough of the formal board meetings to warrant a role as a director."

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don't let the door hit y

Apple could do with a little less influence from that greedy b****** anyhow. Oracle has been all about extorting extra money from existing clients (rather than trying to win new clients with good products) lately.

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oracle on x

interesting...now that oracle actually has an upcoming product for apple he's gone, guess its good for oracle from a conflict of interest point of view.

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Honorable Members of the Apple Board of Directors:

I heard you have an opening on the Board. I would like you to know that I'm available.

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Larry's busy

He has a company to run (which has been squeezed lately), and his spare time will be totaly sucked up for the next six months by his America's Cup Campaign in Aukland (first round of races just about to get under way).

Personally I would prefer to have board members who have the time to devote to making sure Apple is run right, and not rubber stamp board members, like those at Enron, Worldcom, etc.

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That's It!

Great, now Apple's Board of Directors are leaving. Forget this c***, I'm getting a PC!!! No one ever leaves MS's Board.

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Hehe... That was a good one ;-)

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Re: That's it

Actually, MS has had 3 (out of 8) board members leave in the past two years.

We need 2 more to leave if Apple is to keep up!!

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Actually, MS has had 3 (out of 8) board members leave in the past two years.

We need 2 more to leave if Apple is to keep up!!

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One less cook

Having too many people in control with too many different opinions is exactly what makes for watered down business decisions. Apple should be happy there is one less cook in the kitchen. Whatever for this guy saying he will "continue to offer my advice to Steve"; when he chose to leave, he chose to give up his rights of advisement.

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goodbye

don't let the door slam on your a** oon the way out. .

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[i]Whatever for this guy saying he will "continue to offer my advice to Steve"; when he chose to leave, he chose to give up his rights of advisement.[/i]

Uhm, Ellison and Jobs are personal friends!!

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Who cares?

This is not important. I don't care if the Apple board are Satanists having s** with goats. I switched from garbage PCs (pieces of c***) to a nice Apple desktop running the best consumer Un*x out there, OS X. It amazes me how many PC apologist whingers spend their time on this web page. If you losers actually had any computer science knowledge and actually had a Mac, you wouldn't be posting your whinging. Get yerselves lives, kiddies, or go back to your Nintendos.

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Yeah!!

I second that.

Larry

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Indeed

Let me "third" that!

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Mostly

Most Mac users have a good sence of humor : )

(actually, this is one of the first non_smart a** posts I've made)

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This is not important. I don't care if the Apple board are Satanists having s** with goats.

They're not satanists! Everyone knows they're Druids! Geesh, people, don't you all know anything!

And where can I get into some of that hot goat action?

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err...

Since when did Apple become so "lump of coal stuck up their butts" that they couldn't let this guy have some time off but remain on the board? Something doesn't smell right in Cupertino.

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re: eerr

Do you know how much Chairmen and Directors of the Board get paid? even when they dont attend meetings?! If you did, then you'd realize that unless said company has tonnes of cash to throw around willy nilly, then the fewer drifters the better.

Now being a personal friend of Steve, the guy probably thought he would just pull out instead of bleeding money out of the company when he doesnt have time to commit to it, Im sure no one at Apple has been damaged by the move, in fact I say good job to the bloke for being one of the few chairmen to be somewhat honest

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Hey Larry...

willya do us all a favor and his steveness with you?

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Good riddance!

The guy should have resigned from the BoD years ago. When I used to own AAPL, I always voted my shares against his renewal after his first year proved he was rarely around to conduct his director business. And when you don't show up at least for ANY of the shareholder meetings, that just shows his arrogance as he'd rather not even have to deal with "commoners". With "friends" like Larry Ellison, who the h*** needs any enemies? This is just one less deadbeat on Apple's pretty sad BoD (only one you can really respect on there who has any form of integrity is Art Levinson).

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Whats wrong with

Whats wrong with Nintendo?
It complements my G4 tower in the games department.

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Mmmm

And where can I get into some of that hot goat action?

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What ???

First this whole OS X fiasco, and now Ellison resigns when he finds out Steve has s** with animals! And if that wasn't bad enough, it's GOATS! Talk about unstable environment here!

I am completely sick of this disgusting Mac world and its pagan shennanigans. I'm going back to Wintel which I shoudda never left. Pat Robertson was right all along dammit.

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re: Goats

Since switching from a PC to a G4 back in 99, I've seen far too many Goat Shagging Macworlds to be a coincidence. Mac lovers and Goat Lovers go together.

Im buying a Dell, at least PC users' Monkey Nut Kissing is still an acceptable practice in some third world countries.

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Great!

Now we just need the jerk from intuit off the board!

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You got that right!

I second the notion of getting that deadbeat from Intuit off the Apple board. This is a company that that really does not support the Mac.

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Heh!

This is not important. I don't care if the Apple board are Satanists having s** with goats.

They're not satanists! Everyone knows they're Druids! Geesh, people, don't you all know anything!

And where can I get into some of that hot goat action?

hehe he eh hahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!
hot goat action..... snicker...hahahahahahahahahah!!!

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Ellison resigns from Apple Board of Directors

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