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- From: philip@griffith.dwr.csiro.au (Frere)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Oracle Corp's $500 Network Computer? & Rupert Murdoch ?
- Date: Tue, 2 Jan 1996 14:14:52 UNDEFINED
- Organization: C.S.I.R.O Australia
- Message-ID: <philip.322.010D88D1@griffith.dwr.csiro.au>
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- In article <30E0DAE9.416F@cis.compuserve.com> Steve Ahlstrom <sja@cis.compuserve.com> writes:
-
-
- >Discussion of a "$500 Internet box" has been in all of the major computer
- >industry periodicals
- >for the last 6 months -- Oracle will probably be the first to bring such a box
- >to market, Apple
- >could be next (Rumor has it that Steve Jobs and Oracle's Ellison are attempting
- >to take over
- >Apple).
-
- Interesting to note that Rupert Murdoch sailed with Oracle's owner, Larry
- Ellison in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht race this year aboard Larry's Maxi,
- 'Sayonara'! You can't tell me they were just good friends enjoying a bit of
- ocean racing!
-
- The following is clipped from http://telstra.com.au/
-
- SAYONARA
- SAIL NO: US 17
- LOA: 23.8mCLASS: IMS
- DESIGNER: Bruce Farr (NZ)YEAR BUILT: 1995
- TYPE: ILC Maxi NO.OF HOBARTS: 0
- OWNER: Larry Ellison, SAILING MASTER: Bill Erkelens
- CLUB: St. Francis Yacht Club, USA
- Brand new Farr ILC maxi shipped from America to contest the Sydney-Hobart
- and Southern Cross Cup.
-
- For a picture of Sayonara tied up at Constitution Dock in Hobart after the
- race, point your web browser at:-
-
- http://www.tas.gov.au/shyr95/festivities/arrcam/
-
- Sayonara is the yach closest
- to the camera, ie the first to arrive!
-