Month: February 2000

“We are running what I call a software power grid for high-growth Internet companies.”

LoudCloud chairman Marc Andreessen, who describes his company’s business model as “getting paid a lot,” Los Angeles Times, 21 February 2000

“Some of the grand visions we had at that time didn’t work on the thin little straw of the Web.”

Microsoft TV group manager Marty Behrens, on how he’s taking the same strategy that failed for MSN and applying it to interactive TV, The Industry Standard, 21 February 2000

“Microsoft thinks innovation is putting stuff into software. We think innovation is taking stuff out.”

Oracle marketing exec Jeremy Burton, on the database giant’s philosophical differences with Microsoft, Wired News, 17 February 2000

“[Windows 2000] can handle all the e-commerce done on the Web last year in two days.”

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, on his plans to accelerate the pace of e-commerce losses with his new server software, MSNBC, 17 February 2000

“When you spend your time on the Internet, you don’t hear a human voice and you never get a hug.”

Stanford political scientist Norman Nie, who probably concluded that the Internet was a lonely, uninvolved place after women kept ignoring him in AOL chat rooms, The New York Times, 16 February 2000