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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)."
his biography.
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
Big companies like Oracle. Not like Microsoft. While I know that a lot of large companies have some bad (bad == evil on par with the antichrist) Oracle has typically made good contributions to the community. I do seem to recall them making a profoundly dumb move once or twice, but the details are hazy at best. Not like Microsoft where I can specifically call out atleast a dozen things they have done that aren't just wrong, but evil equal to that to the antichrist.
--fetch daddy's blue fright wig, i must be handsome when i release my rage
what 90's did you grow up in?
Netscape was THE browser, until IE 4.0 was out for a while. that's when the tides really started to turn. People actually installed browsers on their system. they knew a little how it worked. IE (3.0) was some pre-installed browser that didn't work on 1/2 the sites, and crashed often.
and today... today, moz (and its variants) is a great browser that all the geeks use. those that don't, they're not hard core.
You forgot the largest currently run private R&D facility, IBM! You know, the guys who churn out more than a patent a day. MS research has done little with their money, HP unfortunatly is no longer really in the R&D game, Bell Labs is gone, and PARC too is a memory.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
AT&T spun off Bell Labs as part of Lucent Technologies. I'm not sure if AT&T still has a research lab, but the Bell Labs name went to Lucent, along with most of their stuff.
That was one of the Akamai cofounders:
Akamai Technologies, the Cambridge Internet company whose 31-year-old cofounder Daniel Lewin died when Los Angeles-bound American Airlines Flight 11 became the first hijacked jet to slam into a World Trade Center tower, held a private service but also remembered Lewin with a tribute at its Web page.
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...and they DO contribute to the Open Source community.
http://oss.oracle.com/
I think this issue depends upon who is defining "innovation." If you define it as coming up with new ideas, history has demonstrated that almost all great innovations have been the brainchild of a single person. If you define innovation as taking someone else's early work and slapping your name on it and calling it your innovation, then yes, corporations lead the way with that brand of "innovation."
Anyone recall MS trying to put a spam filter in outlook in 1999 and then getting sued because it filtered "greeting cards"
Yes, and the "spam filter" suspiciously blocked everyone else's greeting cards, but not those from MS.
MS got sued because they were screwing with people's email, in (yet another) attempt to leverage their desktop monopoly to eliminate competition.
The lawsuit was far from "crap".
FYI, Oracle's internal IT is rolling out Linux (based on RH AS 3.0) as a supported Desktop option to all its employees worldwide -- everyone from secretaries to salespeople to the hardcode RDBMS programmers.
They're including OpenOffice 1.1 in the mix (as well as Moz 1.5, etc)