[dba-Tech] Blackberry outage

Tina Norris Fields tinanfields at torchlake.com
Thu Oct 13 17:15:55 CDT 2011


Hmmmm.  Maybe we should be buying RIM stock.
T

Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields at torchlake.com
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On 10/13/2011 1:56 AM, Arthur Fuller wrote:
> I can't prove it but I suspect that there is a plot afoot, and thereby drive
> the stock down, and thence scoop the shares cheaply. My bet is to buy RIM
> shares now, before the dumpster-divers close in. I hate those
> further-morkers, and I wish there were a flat-rate tax system that would tax
> them the same percentage as working-class people. But I digress.
>
> Some serious players are out to undermine RIM, and to drive its stock down
> in preparation for a takeover. There is some ugly business afoot here. This
> is corporate warfare rearing its ugly head. It's not the first time it's
> happened, but this one might be its most visible example.
>
> This is how it works:
>
> a) hire some programmers to reverse-engineer the software.
> b) plant a seed and wait for it to grow into a massive weed.
> c) launch your own marketing plan offering something immune to said weed.
>
> That is what is happening to RIM currently, IMO. RIM's big thing has been
> its security, so how better to attack the company than to attack its
> security? Once that pillar has been dislodged, there is no company. And that
> is precisely what is occurring at present. I can't point fingers at specific
> companies, primarily because they are well-cloaked, but you can follow the
> cookie-trails and figure out which companies stand to profit most from RIM's
> downfall, or acquisition, or both.
>
> Arthur
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