On Sat, 2005-10-29 at 14:16 -0400, kip martin wrote: > Marketing often trumps excellence.
Agreed, but marketing can also involve confidencein open standards, for example by governments. This then means money thrown at eg advertising is just wasted. Money on political lobbying is more effective marketing. In the absence of money things like getting press and strategic political lobbying of individuals with influence can be very effective. i do > understand that no one wins the marketplace forever--thats why im here. some > upstart comes along and beats the big dogs. Which is why the work of people such as Clay Christensen on disruptive technologies that provides insight into why these changes take place is of great value to us. Forget the obvious in terms of big showy advertising and look at what is happening in more subtle dimensions. > id MUCH prefer to see an open standards product win the battle. so ill do > what i can to help. and that includes criticism as much as praise. But be careful that the criticism doesn't undermine the marketing effort. The competition do enough of that without us doing their job for them ;-) -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL
