[dundee] Google's Response to the MS bid for Yahoo

Gary Short gary at garyshort.org
Tue Feb 5 11:09:38 GMT 2008


-------- Original Message --------
> From: Arron M Finnon <afinnon at googlemail.com>
> Sent: 05 February 2008 10:50
> To: dundee at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: [dundee] Google's Response to the MS bid for Yahoo
> 
> In answer to the "do you see them being replaced with some sort of open source entity?" question, i think the face of
> computing will change forever.  Investors will panic, customer confidence will vapourise, the web 2.0 industry and the 
> face of re-inflated dot.com bubble will be sucked down in the wake of HMS M$ sinking, and a return to a kinder and 
> purer computing will emerge.  

But non of that happened when, the then software giant, IBM lost it's way to be replaced by MS. What will make the collapse of MS different?

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Cheers,
Gary
http://www.garyshort.org








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