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Date:      Fri, 28 Jan 2000 05:23:40 +0100
From:      Roelof Osinga <roelof@nisser.com>
To:        Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, n@nectar.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kairetsu
Message-ID:  <389119CC.B4F515F1@nisser.com>
References:  <199909291723.KAA15997@usr06.primenet.com> <200001260608.WAA72904@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <20000127093335.E53307@freebie.lemis.com>

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Greg Lehey wrote:
> 
> >> Heh.  You're a "Kairetsu".
> >
> > I finally bothered to go dig out just what this was, it took a while
> > to find this reference that gave me some form of a definition:
> >
> 
> I don't know about Kairetsu, but this isn't the type of the
> Mittelstand.  Mittelstand companies stay the way they are, without
> great changes.  This stability is one of their biggest advantages.

The usual english form is keiretsu. E.g. Alta Vista gives 18 hits
on kairetsu versus 3,490 on keiretsu. Call it synergy. The
mittelstand is soo bourgeois <g>.

Roelof

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