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Andreessen Interview Discusses Post-Crash Innovation
kevcol writes "The SF Chronicle has an interview with Netscape co-founder Marc Andreessen, talking about innovation after the dot-bomb crash, how AOL doesn't understand its own customers, his reaction to some comments by Larry Ellison, who believes that 'innovation primarily comes from big companies like Oracle', and Andreessen's post-Netscape experience as head of OpsWare (formerly LoudCloud)."
innovation primarily comes from big companies like Oracle
Just the other day I was reading that Microsoft is readying new technology to stop web popup's in their browser - this sort of fast paced innovation is what we can expect from leaders within an industry.
Does he mean the economy or the browser?
heh
Not to harp on this guy, but i increasingly read that he's kind of an ass, was against mozilla being open because he was too fond of his baby Netscape (which had turned to crap under his rule). I am the lone developer of an application and what i want to point out is timing. Where's my millions of dollar? I want to open my own night club too. Ahh, venture capital. Where are you now.
ender-iii
is he no longer a co-founder?
Actually building a secure server - now that would be innovation.
The same can't be said for other area's of software.
"Thanks to the remote control I have the attention span of a gerbil."
This is the same guy who gave movie advice
here??
Right?
I found this particularly interesting
. .WSJWashingtionPostUsaToday said that apparently "All your base belong to us".
When AOL's market cap was at $170 billion, the executives added up the parent companies of the five major newspapers in the country -- the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, L.A. Times, Washington Post and USA Today.
They could have bought all five for about 10 percent of their outstanding equity at the time. And they almost did it, except for the fact that they didn't think they could get antitrust clearance. But they thought that would be a good thing to do.
Nothing like unbiased news sources owned by a gigantic conglomorate of everything evil in the world.
Tv News reporter
Today in news CEO/CTO of AOLTimeWarnerNetscapeNewYorkLATimes...commerical.
Heh. NOBODY understands AOLers.
That's "Mr. Soulless Automaton" to you, Bub.
I guess management is the only place where successive failures enhance your fame. If he were an ordinary "worker", with that record, he would be out on the streets.
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Come on! It crashed! Where's the core dump so we can run it through GDB and find out what went wrong?!?
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Well, whether he's a winner or a loser depends on your priorities.
I mean, sure, he's a pioneer.
But on the other hand, there's other people who are also pioneers, who now have vast wealth and can have any woman they want.
Just sayin'.
"We're doing about $8 million or so in business every quarter, so we're not very big."
I wish my employer wasn't "very big" too.
-- bearclaw
I believe you mean he is building a frickin' rocket.
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Give me but a C++ compiler, and I will build the world. -- Archimedes
Innovation can come from anywhere, but it takes a big company like Oracle to make an Unbreakable product, right?
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
Mr Andreessen, welcome back. We missed you.
(I'm so sorry)
...how AOL doesn't understand its own customers,
That's ok. I don't unerstand AOL customers either.