<I never liked ariba much really, but that could be my own prejudice. Their management comes from Next... the old "pc" space, and
therefore, people like me think they don't know anything. (well - more accurately - they know how to do a whole bunch of whizbang UI
things but have no idea what common business transaction sets are, for example).>
Well, if arba folks are from Next, that's enough of a death warrant for me too. After all, Next folks are Jobs lemmings. And I don't have a lot of respect for the guy, despite his psuedo-resurrection of aapl. He let it get to where it was, after all, by egregiously milking mac profits and then hiring Skully to boot.
<Otoh, Hoffman walked into commerce one late - he inherited the old distrivision which was not exactly lighting the world on fire - and he
had to round up all the R&D people and get the whole thing going starting in 1995 - Ariba had a head start.>
Well, regardless of his inheritance, Hoffman certainly seems to be making the most of it. (I'm hoping my relatives say the same thing about me.) <vbg> |
