"What we were doing was exposing Microsoft's own little Watergate. They were doing all the covering up. We are just the guys that caught the other guys in a break-in" - Chairman of Oracle Corporation Larry Ellison, who last week defended his company's hiring of a private investigator to inquire into allies of rivals Microsoft.
News monitor column compiled by Patrick Logue.
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