Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 15:24:50 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: O'Reilly article: Whence the Source: Untangling theOpenSource/Free Software Debate Message-ID: <36EAE5B2.AF6E3E37@softweyr.com> References: <4352.921186024@zippy.cdrom.com> <4.1.19990312125429.03fa6530@localhost> <4.1.19990313071753.04020390@localhost>
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Brett Glass wrote:
>
> At 11:06 PM 3/12/99 -0700, Wes Peters wrote:
>
> >Too bad Apple never managed to strike that balance. They've just
> >about become a sideshow now, thanks to management by egomania.
>
> Their management strategy is absurd. Too bad that even their
> brilliant PR (and it is brilliant at times) can't make up for
> that.
It's important to remember that no matter how good your marketing is,
how much the press likes you, you need to deliver what your customers
want. Jobs seems to have forgotten this, or maybe he never learned
it. Sun seems to be treading close to the line here these days, but
the company continues to deliver to their customers even while Scott
McNealy is out schmoozing Diane Sawyer. I wonder about the ability
of Red Hat to survive the media attention and all the money pouring
in, about their ability to remain focused on delivering better and
better systems to their customers, and if their quality will slip as
their popularity goes up. According to several people I know who are
pretty far up in the Linux universe, this had already started happening.
I live in fear, as I know you do, of the day Mary Jo Foley discovers
Jordan's latent star ability and turns him into a media circus, too.
;^)
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com
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