Ted Roche wrote: > I think Dell is at www.dell.com. Revlon... hmm, I'm not sure, but you > can probably google it. > > Dell and Revlon were the two case studies of early adopters featured > at the official DotNet 1DotZero rollout world-wide net-cast as > incredible successes of DotNet before it was even officially released. > Word on the street is that huge contingents of Microsofties (likely > via MS Consulting Services) were involved in pitching, designing, > implementing and rolling out both applications. Further word on the > street is that neither project actually ended up being used by any > real end-users. To be fair, 80% of projects of that size probably > fail. > >
...and from what I understand, the companies didn't have to pay a cent for the development of these applications. Apparently, they got their money's worth <g>. One of the all-time great quotes from a MSFT marketer at LA Fox re: .NET 1.0 -- "Companies are throwing out their mission critical applications sight unseen to rewrite them in the beta version of .NET [1.0]." I must be cranky today, sorry <g>. Bill _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
