whipping boy

Oracle’s fiscal second quarter conference call was interesting on a couple of fronts. Here are a few observations: No. 1: Oracle has a new whipping boy: Salesforce.com.

Check out CEO Larry Ellison’s comments about Salesforce.com, which totaled eight mentions (not quite SAP territory, but getting there), on the company’s second quarter conference call.

Yahoo’s stock is struggling to stay above $10, the ad deal with Google is in the history books and Microsoft has been quick to say “Not interested.” And CEO Jerry Yang has turned into the Internet whipping boy over it.

Unless Romney pulls off some magic in California and states that close later, Huckabee is a big story tonight.

He may have just turned it into a 2 candidate race, and he’s definitely spurned Romney’s accusations of being McCain whipping boy.

Check out Drudge’s projections:

AL: HUCKABEE
AR: HUCKABEE
CT: MCCAIN
DE: MCCAIN
GA: HUCKABEE
IL: MCCAIN
MA: ROMNEY
MO: HUCKABEE
ND: ROMNEY
NJ: MCCAIN
NY: MCCAIN
OK: MCCAIN
TN: HUCKABEE
UT: ROMNEY
WV: HUCKABEE