> > So while it's true that MetaCard Corp. "went out of > business", may we > > all go out of business as well as he did. :) > > > This reminds me of my last conversation I had with Dr. Raney. > We were discussing his sale to Rev when he told me about his > exit strategy. In my more naive state of business ownership > I felt he was selling out. But he educated me in considering > this very important stage and lifespan of a business. He > asked me when I planned to retire and enjoy the fruit of my > labor. I found the handful of conversations we had to be > very useful in my formative years.
It is important to differentiate between a company, technology and the owner. In fact, I have had some conversations with VCs about how they screen out a lot of start ups by finding out if the owner really understands it. Ive seen a lot of brilliant work that comes out of deep research (esp from academics) flounder as a result. Scott had his "human" exit strategy - retirement. MetaCard had its business exit strategy - sell assets to Runtime, knowing that Runtime will make long term investments. I am very glad this is what happened. If the business can't reach beyond a certain size, then its very hard to keep prepetuating an infrastructural product like a development environment (or a database system, for that matter). Open source can alleviate that a bit. For those who know what Im talking about - remember.. mTropolis? ;-) Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty Free Database Server _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution