[Leica] Re: film is dieing..... according to Kodak at least

[Jim Brick <jim_brick@agilent.com>]

Nathan is correct. Kodak squandered a H-U-G-E pile of money when digital
was still in the womb. And, at the same time, did not counter the Fuji
challenge. Bad bad business decisions. Two strikes against them. Nothing to
do with digital killing the film market.

Jim


At 08:16 AM 12/8/00 -0800, Nathan Wajsman wrote:
>Duane,
>
>Film may be dying, or it may not, but Kodak's woes
>have little to do with it. If the problems in their
>film business were due to digital, then their digital
>business should be doing well, right? Well, it is
>losing lots of money. If the reason is competition
>from Fuji, then it is just poor execution on Kodak's
>part. Let us remember that management of a struggling
>company will always try to blame poor performance on
>external factors. Current favorites on both sides of
>the Atlantic include:
>
>- bad weather
>- good weather
>- the weak Euro
>- the strong dollar
>- unfair competition from the other side of the ocean
>- the apparent slowdown in the US economy 
>
>and so on. Anything except poor or poorly executed
>business strategy.
>
>Nathan