Bob Sullivan wrote: >A testimony to why Kodak didn't take digital seriously...
Living in Rochester at the time, and having many friends who worked at Kodak, I got a front seat view of the catastrophe-in-slow-motion that was Kodak's handling of digital. They certainly knew of its potential and rightly thought it would take over some day. Heck, they led the field in the 90's. I think, in fact, they'd have been better off which is to say they'd have put a lot more effort into digital if they *hadn't* been leaders at that time. But because of their dominance of film and their expertise in digital, they seemed to think they were in control; that if they dragged their feet on digital they could slow down the whole marketplace and thus the world's transition to digital. They really couldn't conceive of the rest of the world simply moving on and leaving them behind. (Also, I really suspect that their last couple of CEO's simply regarded Kodak as doomed and concentrated their efforts on lining their own pockets before the company went under.) -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
