Comments on: Judge rules Oracle withheld Ellison e-mails

Software giant failed to preserve evidence in lawsuit accusing the company of making false statements about its financial condition in 2001.

[humanssssss]

Steve Jobs and Larry Ellison are friends. Both of them cheat. I hate cheaters. It's a like poker game when the cards were marked and I can never seem to win until I found out. By then, I have no money left to play. These fckers need to go to jail. It's already hard to compete in an honest game. It is near impossible to compete when the players are cheating. Take them out and punish them severely!

Investigate Steve Jobs too. He backdated stock options at both Pixar and Apple. That guy is a criminal.

[joetesta70]

Yea! Right on!

[ralfthedog]

Backdating is not illegal. It is a common practice. In some cases it is the only fare way to do business. Steve Jobs was told that the board of directors had approved the backdate of the options. The day he found out the CFO had lied about the board (and forged signatures of board members) he fired the CFO, and called the SEC to report the violation. He never executed the option (even after the board retroactively approved the backdate). If he had chosen to execute the option he would have made quite a bit of money.

This should be used as an example in every business school in the world as how to handle this kind of action.

All I can say is "Right on Steve, good job!"

[zclayton2]

Let me ge this straight. A journalist author who had interview transcripts from 2000-2001 on his personal laptop had the research notes for his published book destroyed for unknown reasons in 2006 or 2007. Exactly how and why are Oracle and Ellison responsible for this? When was the lawsuit filed and discovery initiated? Were the authors notes suppeonaed and is the author charged with anything? This makes no sense as presented in the article other than alleged destruction of emails.