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What to Buy and Why: Barron's 2009 Roundtable, Part I

On Jan 13 03:52 PM bigbwe wrote:

> Where is Art Samberg this year?

For possible reasons why he isn't a Roundtable contributor, see:

www.signonsandiego.com...

about an influence-peddling scandal motivated by allegations
of insider trading involving Pequot Capital's Samberg.

www.deepcapture.com/94.../

further elucidates -- Samberg appears to be at the nexus
of an insider trading scandal with Pequot Capital and Microsoft
(choice quote:'The day after Microsoft’s earnings announcement, Samberg emailed Zilkha: “I shouldn’t say this, but you probably have paid for yourself already.”')

Somehow, the Pequot investigation rose to the level of attention of SEC's Chairman Cox as well as Senator Charles Grassley ... Inveterate followers know that the testimony of Gary Aguirre is damning:

www.whistleblower.org/...

This seems to be enough for persona-non-grata status.

Buying MySQL Could Save Sun

About that $50 per Java copy, Sun does get $50 per year per employee
for carte blanche use of supported Java. Also every Blu-Ray player
ships with Java, accruing per copy royalties to Sun. We aren't even counting the cellphones here.