Some People Just Can't take No for an Answer...

Seems everybody wants to emulate Larry Ellison's behavior.  Microsoft is turning up the heat on its Yahoo pursuits and EBay is following suit (pun intended) W/R/T bringing Craigslist into the eBay fold.  Neither company wants to be acquired, of course...and they have sent that message loud and clear.  But, when competitive pressures get the street chanting that you need to do something to feed your growth engine, people like Ballmer and Donahoe take off the gloves and come out swinging.  And all you need to do to see why is to chart Oracle's stock price since it announced the PeopleSoft acquisition on 12/14/04.