Re: Now this is way off topic, it was: Re: Reverting toOutlook Express

[Michael W. Wellman]

> Funny you should say that... A few of us in our office have speculated that
> if an Enterprise company were started with partners Sun (servers), SGI(high
> end graphic workstations), Apple(user interface, normal users, and Human
> Interface Guidelines), Oracle(Enterprise database solutions) and AOL Time
> Warner (Networking infrastructure and content) all supplying expertise, the
> entire industry would radically alter overnight.  And give Bill Gates the
> biggest fright of his life.

Nah, Bill would go to a bed smiling knowing that they'd never get their act
together.

Kind of like the open source version of Netscape. :-(

[Random aside: Open source projects only work when you have people with
vision and charisma leading them *AND* they're willing to say "No, not in
this release" and "No, never in my source tree" as needed.]


Take all of those companies, their executives, and try to figure out who's
going to be in charge...it'd be a nightmare.

Now, if they merged the companies and an unfortunate accident befell all the
various executive staffs but one...well then you might have something. ;-)

mikel


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