Microsoft to buy Firefly www5.zdnet.com
I'm not really up on this agent stuff, another one of these things to take you where somebody else wants you to go. I just note this one for contrast with an oldie from last summer:
The Buzz About Firefly search.nytimes.com
Which contains one of those quotes that just makes you love Microsoft all the more:
Feeding the lion" is how Max Metral describes his visits to Microsoft headquarters. Metral is the 24-year-old chief of technology at Firefly Network, a small Internet software company based in Cambridge, Mass. One evening in February, he and his partners flew to Seattle to spend the next day showing off Firefly's software, which has aroused a good deal of investor interest. One of the Microsoft engineers, who have elevated the techno-put-down to high art, glanced at Firefly's software and concluded, "We could do that in a week." But they did seem interested in Firefly's business plan, Metral recalls. When the meetings were over and the Firefly team drove back to Sea-Tac International Airport, they had not only fed the lion but also felt the fear.
Guess there weren't many people available with a spare week up in Redmond, what with the "bet the company" NT5 release slipping off into wheneverland. So, another promising technology dissappears into Windows World, never to be seen again. Or maybe once Bill owns it, it'll take us where we want to go!
Cheers, Dan. |
