Stranger things have happened before.
How many of you remember that after it lost its bid to be bought by
MS Intuit went out and bought a company out of Iowa called Parsons
Technology. The reason? To kill off it's Tax Edge program. It
shuttered Tax Edge, and then slowly dismantled the company and sold
off some of its better products (Bible Software etc.) to Then TLC (I think)
Parts of it still exist, but its chef programmer Craig Rairdian left
and formed his own compnay called Laridian that now fills the niche
with smart phones an PDA's for Religious software.
Wouldn't be the first time someone spent a lot of money to kill the
competition. Tom who is it that you keep railing against who buys up
the competition to stifle innovation??? (Bi$$)
Stewart
At 06:45 PM 1/18/2008, you wrote:
So Sun paid $1,000,000,000 for MySQL in order to kill it? What a theory!
Do these companies really have that kind of money to burn?
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
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Prince of Peace
Ozark, AL SL 82
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