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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (83523)	11/8/1999 12:59:00 PM
From: Robert Rose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

<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>