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From: "Fariborz 'Skip' Tavakkolian" <fst@real.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Thinknic and plan9
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Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 13:06:04 -0700
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It is surprising to know that anyone could hold dinner
down in presence of Ellison.

At 03:43 PM 5/31/01 -0400, you wrote:
> > Oracle have been trying to market this box under various
> > guises for something like 5 years, they should give up.
>
>As a bit of amusement, Oracle was very close (back in fairly
>early Lucent Inferno BU time) to licensing Inferno for
>this or similar boxes.  It was close enough that Ellison
>and Rich McGinn had dinner to shake hands over the deal.
>Then, quite suddenly, the deal fell apart, preumably
>not because the dinner went poorly.
>
>	Dennis
>
>