:: Israeli Nokia ::

I'm sick and I'm tired.

Sick because it will always come up, with any acquisition, spin-off or split, tired because every time you read this you get sick. And being sick makes me tired.

The trigger this time was the ECI announced split. Company split, not stock split. So, again it came up, ECI will not be the Israeli Nokia. So what. Who cares. Why is it that we need an Israeli Nokia? Ah, I remember it is because a Nokia provides jobs, acquired Start-Ups and span-off Some-Ups don't. Right? Wrong!

Have you ever visited SunGard Business Integration, formerly known as Mint? Business is blooming there. If not running their own Start-Ups, where the hell do you think ClassData employees are if not at Cisco here in the Wadi? And who waters the flower at You-Know-Who? You can look, but Steve Case isn't there, and the office is just across the road, trust me.

All the salaries, all the services bought here, all the money taken from the vested options, all is paid in NIS converted from $. This is, as far as I can tell, a known form of export.

So we won't have an Israeli Nokia.

I won't be blond, I'll get by with the little I have left, no matter the color.

And the Wadi will stay hot and steamy, just the way we like it.

OK? Now shut-up this Nokia stuff.

Wadi Writer #1 (Gray)

WadiList@mail.com

P.S - Just thought of it, but maybe I'm getting it wrong. We need an Israeli Nokia to show we have a bigger one than theirs. Well, due to my gender and sexual preferences I'm not an authority on this issue, but rumor has it that as a group those who come from Scandinavia are well equipped, just a little short of the tanner ones. Sorry, no chance on this one, you little Mediterranean guys.