Dear SAP,
Surely you can do better than describe Larry Ellison's sledging of your business and your products as "a complete misrepresentation"; or "inconsistent"?
That's not much of a rebuttal.
Ellison is a street fighter. He likes a stoush. He dissed you in public. Now he wants to see whether you're prepared to come out swinging or whether you're going to scuttle off wimpering.
Right now it looks like he's figured out you don't have the stomach for the battle to come.
And make no mistake the battle is on. This is one game you Germans can't win by keeping the ball in your own half, playing for time then hoping for victory in the penalty shoot-out.
Oracle's recent stellar results show the world Ellison won the first round. His barbed comments and your wimpish response show us he's already ahead on points in the second round. Are you guys up for the fight or are you going to retreat all the way home?
Luckily for you, I can help. When it comes to trading insults, our neighbours the Australians are masterful. The Australian cricket team has turned sledging into a tactical nuclear weapon, but for my money, when it comes to a public slanging match the reigning world champion is former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating.
Check out Paul Keating's insults for some inspiration. At the very least learn to describe Ellison as a maggot or a scumbag.
Who knows, you might get to enjoy the fight.
Bill
what is a 'stoush' ?
cheers
Phil
ps: posible typo in penultimate paragraph, Australian or Australians - is only one of them masterful or are they all ?
Posted by: phil boswell | September 21, 2006 11:16 PM
They're all losers
The Krauts lost the world cup
Ellison lost the America's cup and the
Aussies lost the ashes (as well as the football and rugby world cups)
Mind you, I know who I'd want on my side in a war
Posted by: andy oliver | September 22, 2006 4:42 AM
Stoush is Aussie slang for fight - can be traced back to when the poms first came to Australia evidently!
Posted by: Gregor Wilson | September 22, 2006 11:38 AM
There's a good explaination of the term here:
http://www.abc.net.au/newsradio/txt/s1591014.htm
Posted by: Bill Bennett | September 22, 2006 1:25 PM
I'd think I want Larry Ellison on my side in a war :-)
He's a Kendo expert and owns a Mig fighter. That's almost as good as owning a Premier League team.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison
Posted by: Bill Bennett | September 22, 2006 1:32 PM