Re: Focus on Wal-Mart, not Microsoft

2002-03-12 Thread Adam Turoff
On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 12:52:34PM -0600, _brian_d_foy wrote: > >Today's economic reality is that high-tech decisions made in Arkansas >play a larger role in boosting America's productivity than decisions made >in Silicon Valley or Seattle. > > His conclusion, therefore, about where

Focus on Wal-Mart, not Microsoft

2002-03-09 Thread _brian_d_foy
In The Technology Review (March 2002, p. 21), Michael Schrage writes "Wal-mart Trumps Moore's Law" [1]. He makes the point that Microsoft doesn't matter that much in the big scheme of things, because if Wal-Mart decides to spend their four billion dollar "Retail Link" investment elsewhere, whatev