[ale] OT: Begging on Wall Street

Rod Young development at combiz.net
Wed Jun 6 11:14:53 EDT 2001




> Begging on Wall Street
> ----------------------------------------

> There are three beggars begging on Wall Street.
> The first beggar wrote "Beggar" on his broken cup. He
> received $10.00 after one day.

> The next day, the second beggar wrote "Beggar.com" on his
> cup. After one day, he received hundreds of thousands of
> dollars and an offer to float an IPO on NASDAQ.

> The following day, the third beggar wrote "e-Beg" on his
> cup. Microsoft, IBM, and HP sent corporate vice-presidents
> to talk to him about strategic alliances and offered him free
> hardware consultancy. In addition, it was reported on CNBC
> that e-Beg uses 95% Oracle technology and that I2 announced
> the launch of BegTradeMatrix; a b2b industry portal offering
> supply chain integration in the beggar community.

>
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