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cfm@maine.com wrote:
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Suzanne Lainson [mailto:slainson@sportstrust.com]
> > > Sent: Monday, July 20, 1998 12:56 AM
> > 
> > > This article quotes Josh Harris saying that within two years the stations
> > > providing content to Broadcast.com will be doing it themselves.
> > >
> > >
> > http://www.abcnews.com:80/sections/business/DailyNews/broadcastcom_980715/in
> > dex.html
> >
> > Well, of course.
> >
> 
> ...
> >
> > The reason is a combination of Moore & Marx. As Moore's Law causes hardware
> > and software costs to plummet, it becomes more and more economically
> > feasible to operate services internally, rather than contract an outside
> > firm to provide those services. And, as Marx pointed out, a capitalist
> > business makes the most money if it owns its own means of production. The
> > trend thus becomes obvious.
> 
> Henry Ford, (or Bill Gates) OTOH, might point out that the aggregator
> can afford to develop and implement systems and processes that no
> individual **small** shop can and then offer them at cost of
> shrink wrap plus pennies.  The minimum unit would have to support
> a real IS staff.
> 
A small shop can develop and implement systems and processes better than
the aggregator (really means mind devoring alligator). Remember, M$ back
when it produced technically excellent software, was a small shop. What
the small shop is up against is the marketing machines that convince us
that a product that continually needs fixing is the best thing since the
paper clip.
-- 
Michael S. Garber * click below for business card * Mexico Communicates
          -> http://www.tou.com/host/mgarber/buscard.html <-

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