Dana Cimilluca notes
that Oracle is offering $6.66 billion exactly for BEA Systems, whose ticker
symbol is BEAS. He asks whether this is a coincidence. The answer is that no,
it isn’t. It’s another instance of tech CEOs being cute, a bit like Google’s
IPO being for $e billion, and then its secondary
offering being for 14,159,265 shares. Whether you find this kind of behavior
appealing or appalling is likely a good indication of your attitude to tech
stocks more generally.