“We don’t expect huge revenue growth from tools. The strategic value is more important than the revenue itself.”
Microsoft developer tools exec Tod Nielsen, explaining why the his company’s recent reorganization into nominally self-sufficient, customer-centric product groups doesn’t really require him to show a profit — not when they’ve got an operating system monopoly to defend, that is, News.com, 24 May 1999
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