“A lot of companies are going to go out of business as quickly as they go into business. Competition is cutthroat. I predict many will fall to the wayside.”
“The potential advantages of Office 12 sound interesting, although they're hardly earthshaking. Are these the kind of changes that are going to compel companies to rush out and immediately upgrade? We don't think so.”
“We've made the argument before about hybrid vigor -- the more homogeneous the environment and the more you standardize on any single vendor's products, the higher the environment's susceptibility to threats. We're not trying to single out Microsoft here, but rather note that heterogeneity allows businesses to tolerate threats more effectively, just as biological diversity allows populations to better tolerate disease.”
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