“I will not pretend to be an objective observer of the Microsoft trial. You wouldn’t believe me if I did.”
Jodie Allen, Washington editor of Microsoft-owned webzine Slate, getting all postmodern with that wacky notion of editorial independence, The New York Times, 17 November 1998
“The company has learned a lot of valuable lessons about pre-announcing products.”
Iomega marketeer Craig Rathbun, attempting to induce a phase shift in his company’s Clik vaporware at Comdex, Wired News, 17 November 1998
“The single most important thing the Internet has going for it is being on-demand.”
ZDTV CEO Larry Wangberg, touting the Net’s ability to act as a ridiculously overbuilt VCR at the Streaming ’98 conference, News.com, 16 November 1998
“At Microsoft, the overhead of having meetings and building a consensus among a group of people is so high, I had to hire people just to manage the communication.”
Sabeer Bhatia, a Microsoft M&A executive who got assimilated along with his startup, Hotmail, earlier this year, The New York Times, 16 November 1998
“If you write all your new applications in Java, you can ignore the operating system…. We are not an operating systems company.”
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, arguing again for his company’s relevancy in a post-OS world, News.com, 13 November 1998
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