on 25/1/01 6:35 AM, Peter Levy at [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. ;-)
>>
>> mikel
>
> But which one? Or does it not matter?
<facetious mode>
I was going to say:
Scott McNielly for Vice President of Marketing
Steve Jobs for Vice President of Product Development
Larry Ellison for CEO.
But then I thought:
Nah, Ted Turner for CEO
</facetious mode>
Yeah, I know. I've got a really strange sense of humour.
--
Peter Gort
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