PeopleSoft founder's monster home plans

[Gormy Cuss]

PeopleSoft founder's monster home plans
By Lisa Vorderbrueggen
CONTRA COSTA TIMES (www.contracostatimes.com, registration required.)

PeopleSoft founder David Duffield has a new dream: He wants to build a home in Alamo bigger than the Hearst Castle, the White House or Microsoft guru Bill Gates' palatial Washington state digs.

The new domicile plan features a three-story, 72,000-square-foot main home plus 25,000 square feet of outbuildings that include a stable, pool and 20-car underground garage.

It would be constructed on 22 acres off Country Oak Lane, a rural street that serves seven homes at the eastern edge of the Bryan Ranch subdivision. The existing 8,000-square-foot house and many of the trees and outbuildings would be razed.

With numbers this large, it's difficult to picture what 72,000 square feet looks like, and the architectural drawings have not yet been made public. ....It's equivalent in size to 29 tract houses at 2,500 square feet each.

Alamo is an exclusive enclave in the San Francisco East Bay area. The neighbors in their 8000-9000 SF houses are just appalled at this plan....}(

[Webster Green]

1. Yuppie asshole!

His software sucks too!

[Nay]

2. Peoplesoft sucks big time. I am forced to use that crappy software

at work, and I want to put my fist through the computer. How this asshole got so much money for that POS I have no idea.

[OrlandoGator]

6. I'll co-sign, PeopleSoft sucks bad.

n.t

[RagAss]

10. I'm forced to customize that shit.......let me ask you

Did they ever make anything better than the mainframe???

[SoCalDem]

3. What 72K sq ft looks like?

or a similar warehpuse

[patdem]

9. Your pick does not even depict 72,000 sq ft...you show a facade

and not the expanse....We have office warehouse buildings that are 60' x 90' and are 5,400 sq ft each most house 3 offices @ 1,800 sq each...this is over 13 of these buildings. I think this is what is called obsene!

[Skidmore]

4. Bet those people are appalled--gonna mean

new assessments.

[Gormy Cuss]

7. Nah, Prop. 13 protects them.

Of course, it may mean their houses are worth less when they try to sell because Duffield's little place has ruined the neighborhood.

[orwell]

5. But

so what if the neighbors are appalled. He has the money. Its the free market people. :sarcasm:

To the "winners" go the spoils.

Just ask your great President or any other Con.

Freedom is on the march...again...

[Mind_your_head]

8. Does the San Francisco area need another one of these?

<--- epitome of "wretched excess"

[TheCentepedeShoes]

11. Winchester place, right?

Been there. Got the most horrid migrane while touring that place. Couldn't see shit with that "eye thing" that migranes do and puked my guts out when I got back to my aunt's house (was visiting from TX for the summer). Ole Sarah was nuts.

On edit: welcome to DU:hi:

[notadmblnd]

14. you must have been one of those evil spirits the old Winchester

woman was trying to run off. Just kidding, But I just could't resist.

[TheCentepedeShoes]

20. Hee, hee, may have been

An edgy 14 yr old, summer of '63 (still in the days of Camelot), in love with UC Berkeley. Ahh...to go back and start all over...

[Mind_your_head]

15. Thanks for the welcome!

Yup, that's the Winchester Mystery House alright.

Funny how if you're poor, you're just a 'nut', a 'loon, or a 'wacko', but if you're rich you're 'eccentric'. Poor Sarah Winchester seemed like she needed a "really good friend" to tell her to either 'stop' or 'do something more productive' with all of those builders/tradesmen she was employing.

Very sad her story and the house she built.....

[TahitiNut]

19. It'd be three times the size of the Winchester Mystery House.

While it's difficult to measure the size, the Winchester Mystery House is usually reported as about 24,000 square feet.

[Johonny]

12. Well

I just hope he has good taste and plans to donate the house to charity on his death. Turning the house into a museum like several other over indulgent, guilty rich bastards have.

[LynneSin]

13. It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle.....

...than for a rich man to get into the Kingdom of Heaven.

Jesus said that you know!

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. Yeah this GREED PIG really needs a tax cut!

:puke:

[Guaranteed]

22. This would be a great talking point for us, ala "Cadillac welfare moms" nt

[LeftyMom]

17. Jesus! The house I grew up in was 1400 sq ft + garage and too big for us!

I can't even imagine why one family would need or want a home that huge.

[Misunderestimator]

18. Wow... that's like 36 really nice 2,000 sq homes combined.

And he's not exactly a bad guy. If this was Ellison, I wouldn't be surprised. This surprises me.

[jmowreader]

21. 72,000 sf is a smallish Home Depot store

It's a building 144 x 500--we've got a handful of stores that are this small. Lowe's has a lot of stores that are this small.

It's also a very large bowling alley, a good-size basketball arena, a very large supermarket...you could make a real nice airplane hangar in a 72,000 sf building.

As far as homes go, it's fucking huge.