I have hated seeing superior marketing of inferior products out-perform vastly superior technology that was poorly marketed - often despite pricing variances. In fact, in some cases the higher priced product/service was more costly than the technically superior competition. Beta Max vs VHS, 100BaseTx vs 100vg, arguably the Blue-Ray debacle, Access vs VFP, DR DOS vs MS DOS, Warp O/S vs Windows, Linux vs Windows, Mac vs Windows, Windows vs Windows (Vista vs 2000/XP, ME vs Win98 <g>), Windows Server 2003 vs Windows 2000 (again, arguably). Oh well, it is what it is. I am still using 100vg as my primary LAN backbone, as are several clients who invested in it back before it was killed off by HP due to poor market performance. 100BaseTx does not stand a chance against its performance, but gigabit Ethernet does in all fairness. It just took about a decade to get it into a cost effective range. And 100vg still has several advantages even of gigabit Ethernet. But, alas, for the most you can only get 100vg from eBay, and from me! And XP did not include native drivers for 100vg NICs, although 2000 Pro drivers worked fine. Vista handles them fine, but I bet Win 8 is the last stop for 100vg drivers. BTW, Linux has drivers for 100vg still <g>...
Gil > -----Original Message----- > From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech- > boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of MB Software Solutions General Account > Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 3:05 PM > To: profoxt...@leafe.com > Subject: Re: [NF] How my brain kept me from co-founding YouTube > > Michael Madigan wrote: > > <snipped> I didn't see how such a poor product could earn money. LOL > > > > It's all about the marketing!! Vastly superior products have fallen by > the wayside because the 800 pound gorilla did a much better job at > marketing its products. > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/009a01c9b950$5decc4d0$19c64e...@rr.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
