tman. PPS to my last: And if you don't think this "exact discussion" we are having here hasn't taken place <g>, well... This exact discussion also taking (taken?) place at Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, IBM, Netscape, et al., well... <gg>. There's no magic bullet, IMO. They HAVE to go outside of the NW universe now (or they should have 1.5 years ago). That's why I said, maybe the best thing they could do is to "chop it and shop it", coz' I just don't "see it happening" any longer. I DID -- before February of this year. Before CalPERS, even with the naysayers like Dan Dorfman, Mark Cuban (the "short" supreme), etc... But the p*ssed away too (much too much) time after the Frankenberg - Schmidt period (aka, Marengi). I see "FLAT" at best. I see myself not owning this company in 1998 also. Regards, Joe... |