From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92c39a3be0a7f17d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-12-21 07:44:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: RE: Portable GUI (was Re: Future with Ada) Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:08:51 -0500 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9vvja5$edn$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <9vtkbe$kth$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1008947333 14775 136.170.200.133 (21 Dec 2001 15:08:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Dec 2001 15:08:53 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18206 Date: 2001-12-21T15:08:53+00:00 List-Id: Little guys can afford to make little mistakes. Big guys can afford to make big mistakes. I understand how their size & wealth have enabled them to survive some bad product decisions, etc. But if they didn't have some enormously big successes (which means they must be doing *something* right!) they wouldn't have the cash cows out there to make up for the marketing flops and tactical blunders. I'm no big fan of Microsoft, but I will admit that they do manage to do some things pretty well from time to time. Sometimes us techies look at what they do and see the technical flaws and say "Microsoft is a bunch of boneheads". The problem is that the object of the game is not to make good software - its to make money for the stockholders. That they seem to do reasonably well. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Ted Dennison" wrote in message news:o1IU7.6812$XC5.8608@www.newsranger.com... > In article <9vtkbe$kth$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says... > > Not exactly. I was talking about *chance*, not luck. There is a subtle > difference. Luck favors no one. Chance favors the party that can keep playing > longest (as they are less likely to go bankrupt first). Microsoft has had as > many disasters as anyone else, if you care to look into it. Anyone remember > "Bob"? How about version 1.0 of about anything they have ever released? They > just have a huge bankroll, and a really good cash cow behind it, that lets them > survive disasters that would lay anyone else low. >