On 1/23/01 10:06 PM, "Michael W. Wellman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Funny you should say that... A few of us in our office have speculated that
>> if an Enterprise company were started with partners Sun (servers), SGI(high
>> end graphic workstations), Apple(user interface, normal users, and Human
>> Interface Guidelines), Oracle(Enterprise database solutions) and AOL Time
>> Warner (Networking infrastructure and content) all supplying expertise, the
>> entire industry would radically alter overnight. And give Bill Gates the
>> biggest fright of his life.
>
> Nah, Bill would go to a bed smiling knowing that they'd never get their act
> together.
>
> Kind of like the open source version of Netscape. :-(
>
> [Random aside: Open source projects only work when you have people with
> vision and charisma leading them *AND* they're willing to say "No, not in
> this release" and "No, never in my source tree" as needed.]
>
>
> Take all of those companies, their executives, and try to figure out who's
> going to be in charge...it'd be a nightmare.
>
> Now, if they merged the companies and an unfortunate accident befell all the
> various executive staffs but one...well then you might have something. ;-)
Sure would! It would be called DaimlerChrysler! Jawohl!
Cb
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