News and commentary from the cross-platform scripting community.
	Mail Starting 8/28/97

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From: fcohen@ix.netcom.com (Frank Cohen);
Sent at 8/29/97; 5:13:33 PM;
Re:Amelio on Competition

Background: Check http://www.watchmysite.com/bio.html for the big picture. From 1995-1996 I managed Apple's business development for middleware and internetworking products. I worked in ABS, then WW Prod. Mgmt., then Apple USA.

Who knows competition? Most Apple product managers and marketing managers know and understand competition. They can understand the market, develop a competitive strategy, and deliver. That's why the laid-off ones are finding other jobs in the Valley and not folding up their tent and going home.

It's unfair to say they don't know how to compete when you look at the result of their work. The product plans, marketing plans, advertising, and retail push working very well - especially when you consider they are selling an uncompatible product.

I found it frustrating (first at Insignia on the outside, then on the inside) to try to do business with them. Randy Battat described it as a kid's soccer game. Everyone chased the ball at once. There was no attention to the long-term. There was no attention to the effect of a failed partnership.

My sense is that there was no direction from the top, the top management didn't stay in place long enough to make a difference, they hired weak managers with no entrepreneurial dealmaking spirit, and they couldn't bring all the resources to bear when they finally got moving.

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From: tony_jacobs@ced.utah.edu (Tony Jacobs);
Sent at 8/28/97; 9:19:43 AM;
Re:Sept 30 in SF

Any chance of getting that RealAudio broadcast? If not, at least make a recording of it and Quicktime audio it.

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From: Chris.Neuman@ualberta.ca (Chris Neuman);
Sent at 8/28/97; 8:58:12 AM;
Dave in SF - Webcast?

Any possibility you'll be able to webcast/realaudio your Davenet Live session for those of us who're too poor to come down to sunny SF?

I understand you may have concern about a webcast somehow changing the uniqueness of the experience, but it would be great to see the process in action. Hell, to see *you* in action. ;)