How is this like your story?
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 8:31 PM, John Messeder <[email protected]> wrote: > Thing is, to those of us less plugged in or paying less attention, it's > like a fellow told a credit window associate at Sears a bunch of years back. > She said she was sorry for the inconvenience, but she was not > responsible for setting the policy, and he said, > Then please find me someone who is responsible because right now > you *are* Sears & Roebuck, and I'm an unhappy customer. > > On 3/6/2010 8:21 PM, Craig Froehle wrote: >> >> Palm was VERY active in trying to replace Palm OS. But, senior >> management got in the way of the engineers through a series of >> corporate upheavals, including spinning off PalmSource, licensing Palm >> OS, and merging PalmSource with ACCESS (an Asian company). Through >> all that, the engineers at both Palm & PalmSource were quite busy >> trying to gin up a new OS based on Linux. However, the marketing and >> corporate elements of the companies were more focused on other things, >> so the constant undulation in the company frustrated the technical >> efforts. >> >> That's what I've gotten 2nd- and 3rd-hand, but if there are any former >> (or current) Palm employees on here who want to elaborate, please, be >> my guest. > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
