<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com">bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com">bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 04:24:00PM +0000, Paul Vixie wrote:<br>> i myself was a beame and whiteside fan, though i had friends at ftp
<br>> software and other ip-on-windows companies. the common belief was that<br>> with microsoft coming 20 years late to the party, they would be an also-ran.<br>> (i think similar thoughts were spoken aloud when internet explored came
<br>> out in a mostly-mosaic web community.) hopefully a lesson was learned?<br><br> ftp software kicked B&W to the curb... :)<br>`<br>> that lesson is, the installed base is meaningless, and how we did it before
<br>> is meaningless, all that matters is getting growth right.<br><br> Mike O'dell... Mo's Law. 1994</blockquote><div><br><br>I believe the quote is What installed base?<br>CC'ing mo for clarification
<br><br>/vijay<br> <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">--bill<br><br>_______________________________________________
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