Re: Wall Street may see MS deals as bad news

[Mitch Stone <mstone@vc.net>]

--- From a message sent by Paul Richardson on 11/6/98 11:03 AM ---

>And you believe having better technology actually matters in the
>marketplace.If that was the case MS would have been out of business years
>ago

I didn't _say_ that. Let's not allow this thread to bird walk so far that 
the original point is lost.

The question on the floor was whether or not Microsoft partners were of 
two types: those that have been screwed and those that will be screwed. I 
came up with an example of a company that is not the former, and is 
unlikely to be the latter. Impossible? No, of course not. But nobody, not 
even Microsoft, can waltz in and readily recreate the GIS products ESRI's 
developed over the last 20 years. It would be a hilarity for them to even 
try.

   Mitch Stone
   Editor, Boycott Microsoft
   http://www.vcnet.com/bms 
 +---
   The most dementing of all modern sins is the inability
   to distinguish excellence from success --- David Hare