Month: July 1998

“We have historically done acquisitions to build up a product family, and that will continue.”

Marc Andreessen, executive vice president and product foster parent-in-chief at Netscape Communications, News.com, 10 July 1998

“I’ve been at Macromedia for ten years, and it’s been a great run.”

Bud Colligan, the longtime chairman of Macromedia who oversaw a long, steady slump in Macromedia’s fortunes in the past few years, on his resignation in favor of CEO Rob Burgess, News.com, 8 July 1998

“Most email messages are confusing; people don’t spend enough time organizing their thoughts.”

Chris Higgins, a BankAmerica senior vice president charged with managing software projects, taking a Luddite’s pride in making his programmers give him handwritten notes, Fast Company, June/July 1998

“I wouldn’t mind if we sounded like Sports Illustrated.”

Dave Kansas, editor-in-chief of testosterone-addled financial news site TheStreet.com, Wired News, 7 July 1998

“The Internet people don’t want to know about marine protein, and marine protein people don’t want to know about the Internet.”

Zapata Corporation CEO Avram Glazer, the fish-meal mogul intent on buying a Net empire, laying out the rationale for spinning off his Internet concerns as a new company, The New York Times, 6 July 1998