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In message <5gcpte$291g$1@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> - baxte17@ibm.net writes:
>
>IBM must be licking its wounds from its many, many, many failed software
>initiatives.  Ad OpenDoc to the list of "great IBM technology; zero IBM support."
>
>(I wonder how the myriad of IBM software developers feel about designing
>superior technologies only to have their top managers to blunder 
>opportunity after opportunity at pushing these products onto the market place)

I'm wondering the same thing...  There must be layers upon layers upon
layers of managers at IBM who never realized that cool and useful
technology doesn't sell itself out of the labs. 

The saddest thing is that IBM probably screwed it up for Apple too. Even
with much smaller resources Apple, unlike IBM, actually got OpenDoc to work
and came up with usable OpenDoc apps of their own. Perhaps too many IBM
managers own M$ stock...

Well, perhaps some of the OpenDoc technology could be rolled into Java
Beans.


>Source: http://www.pcweek.com/news/0310/14eopen.html                  
>
>
>                   March 14, 1997 6:00 PM ET 
>                   Requiem for OpenDoc
>                   By Norvin Leach
>
>                    
>At the June 1995 PC Expo in New York, Apple Computer Inc.'s
>Gilbert Amelio, Novell Inc.'s Robert Frankenberg and IBM's John M.
>Thompson stood together on a stage asserting their commitment to
>OpenDoc and proclaiming it was key to the future of their companies.
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Hmm, I thought Amelio was just another Apple board member until early
'96...


Brgds,
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