that was mostly because Oracle has been buying all through the downturn, regardless of the economy. I think they are not coming back to the market, as others have. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.

There is another factor that can be seen in the arrogance when so-called big-wigs and experts follow 40 people on Twitter and preen themselves like peacocks about having 20,000 followers themselves…what is happening is that they are not *listening*, even to small competitors who are following them (and listening themselves very carefully).

This allows small companies to be like velociraptors…the non-follow behavior of the big company on a platform like Twitter is like a dinosaur not seeing the velociraptors watching and circling them.