> Les Bell was much involved with OS/2 from its early days, and as I recall his > version, the key point was division of the work. "You (IBM) do the technical > stuff, we (MS) will talk to the third-party vendors."
The Developer Relations Group was a management focus - Ballmer spent a lot of his time on it, with epople like Rick Segal. Was it the 1995 DRG meeting where they had so many developers staying in one hotel that the city insisted they get a parade license to move them from the hotel to the conference centre? -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.com +44 7785 302 803 +49 173 6242039