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"What we were doing was exposing Microsoft's own little Watergate. They were doing all the covering up

"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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