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Look, fellas, whether you like it or not, the shrink-wrapped software business is history. Time to get out (while the gettin's good).
Omega: The first trading ASP.
---- you wrote:
> Yeah, Bob. After reading your initial post, I found myself trying to
> reconcile his statement "we don't want to be better, just different" (which
> is full of problems in itself) with his statement "we want to be an internet
> broker". Christ! What an idiot!
>
> Kent
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Fulks <bfulks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Monte C. Smith <mcs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Omega-List <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Sunday, May 14, 2000 6:01 PM
> Subject: Re: Do it at OmegaWorld
>
>
> At 12:30 AM -0700 5/14/00, Monte C. Smith wrote:
>
> >Closed Friday at about 2 1/2....a 'little' off its high of 12 1/2 last
> >July. Looking suspiciously unlike a 'buying opportunity.' Perhaps
> >management should examine (to say REexamine would presuppose something
> >that probably isn't true) their 'big beliefs' about not trying "to
> >identify or create products that are better than existing solutions."
> >There is a great deal of blatant stupidity in many corporate environs.
>
>
> Their apparent strategy certainly appears to be different than any I
> have run across:
>
> > Replace a decent product with a new version that is unusable
> for at least a year after introduction.
>
> > Piss off your most influential customers with buggy products and
> poor support.
>
> > Shift your business model from one where you have a virtual
> monopoly to one where you are one of a thousand players, many with
> a thousand time more resources, in a business that is rapidly
> becoming a commodity.
>
> I must be missing something obvious...
>
>
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