Larry Ellison has purchased Sleepy Cat Software. Which makes the Berkeley DB engine, the other transaction safe db engine in MySQL.

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Wow!… Intel’s cost to produce a chip is just $40 on average…. wouldn’t you just love to see that in your bottom line?…

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Somebody was selling me something (for a tidy sum I might say)…

the funny thing was… about 5 months ago, that said person already told me how much they had bought the said item, and it was a whole lot lesser than what they were offering me… that person wanted to make money off of me…

ho hummm… good thing that I have a better memory than that said person… and Thank God for other people’s brainfart’s …

From the Philippine Star again

Marketing gurus claimed that we are exposed to more than 1,400 advertising messages per day. With that amount of competition, it is very hard to get your customer’s attention, no matter who you are. So hard that on average, people remember just one of those 1,400 messages. This is a dismal success rate. The time it is advisable to spend on advertising and PR is when you have a big and very profitable repeat sales opportunity. Advertising and PR best serve when firms want to make an immediate sale or when they want to bring in new customers. Otherwise, marketing gurus said that advertising, promotions, and PR should be used mostly to retain customers.