Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 9/26/03 4:37:05 AM, sethrosner@direcway.com writes: << It is rare if not close to unique - and lucky - when a company management - like Microsoft's - is astute enough to produce growing earnings while simultaneously correctly identifying, investing and moving into explosive new technologies. >> The reason for MS's success is that a software engineer can easily be assigned a different task. There is no huge expenditure of time and investment in machine tools and the dozens of other industrial expenses required in making dramatic shifts in production of new products. At MS Gates calls a meeting of the managers and explains the project and the time requirements. A software outfit can turn on a dime, not hundreds of millions of dollars. Gates's genius is that he knows programming, keeps his software up to date, prices it within middle class reach, can mobilize hundreds of programmers to catch up with the competition and outwrite them, has a brilliant legal staff to cover his tracks, can buy out the competition and concentrate on where the demand is. Even though he missed the Internet, he recovered his balance quickly and tore ahead with Explorer. He outfoxed Jobs on GUI in a court case and priced Windows into every PC. He obviously drank a lot of coffee while reverse-engineering Apple's Systems. So much for JAVA. br - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html