In the complete version of the book review that Louis posted, the author
(Paulina Borsook) is quoted as saying that: "It's a dirty little secret in
high tech that superior marketing and inferior technology will beat out
superior technology and inferior marketing every time and that other
factors, aside from Darwinian fitness, determine which technologies and
which companies thrive or perish."
isn't that "dirty little secret" the basis of Microsoft's success? (Have
they _ever_ produced superior technology?)
in addition, it should be mentioned that having good financing,
relationships with strong bankers, and political connections allows an
inferior technology to beat a superior one in the process of capitalist
competition.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
