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To: Roy F who wrote (5865)2/26/1999 7:06:00 PM
From: RTev  Read Replies (1) of 41369
 
Since a dose or two of contrarian medicine is sometimes helpful, I post this interesting article:

Dinosaurs get Internet DNA
redherring.com


The AT&T-IBM saga is a cautionary tale about what happens to large companies when a vision becomes a fixation. That often happens, either through defense of ideology (as in Microsoft's battle with the government) or by large commitment to new directions (as in AOL's Netscape-Sun deal).
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Microsoft has reached its zenith. AOL will soon. Unlike the PC and early Internet era of the 1990s, the big winners in the digital world of the next decade won't be the startups. They will be the dinosaurs of the '90s who have repaired and upgraded their DNA.
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