Re: Delphi within Visual Studio?!?!

From: Captain Jake (johnjac76[nospam)
Date: 08/06/04 

Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 11:23:26 -0500

Dave Jewell <Dave.Jewell@btclick.com> wrote in message
<41139e05@newsgroups.borland.com>
> That's an interesting perspective, Bob. However, my personal take is
> that -- despite its size -- Microsoft strategy is more tightly, more
> centrally controlled than that. I could very well be wrong, but that's my
> feeling.

Odd, I get the opposite feeling--that all the conspiracy theories about how
MSFT schemes to do this or that are based on a model of the large corporation
that is in fact quite unworkable in practice. No organization that large can be
that efficient and effective without a somewhat decentralized operational
model. The idea that a large multi-billion-dollar firm like Microsoft marches
unified under a single leader toward a single goal is an idea I haven't been
able to entertain for several years now. The infrastructure needed to convey
such large amounts of information to the leader, and then the mental capacity
of the leader able to digest such large amounts of information, simply do not
exist in this
universe as far as I can tell.

However, I think a lot of CEO's and executives think of every firm as a ship
guided by it's wise and heroic leader, like the main character of an Ayn Rand
novel. They probably equate Microsoft with Bill Gates, and believe/propagate
the idea that Microsoft runs like Bill's fiefdom. I don't buy this argument,
because it sounds to me like one part of MSFT [the operating systems division]
cooperates well with Borland while another [VS team] seems to operate in an
almost antagonistic manner. I may be wrong, and only Borlanders and MSFT
personnel privy to the daily interactions between the two firms can know for
sure, but this is the feeling I get. 

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***Free Your Mind***
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