"...they'll be no [Treble] at all!" -- Scotty, in The Trouble With Tribbles What was the previous "vendor integration" initiative? How long did it last? Two

"...they'll be no [Treble] at all!" -- Scotty, in The Trouble With Tribbles What was the previous "vendor integration" initiative? How long did it last? Two years? Or was it one. Lack of vendor buy-in. Combined with Google's ADHD project support. Nice idea, but color me skeptical. I don't see anything that hints at a change in the fundamental cost/benefit that's driving the current mess. Maybe I'm just projecting cynicism, because I'd actually like to be proven wrong. And bad press seems to be the only external influence on Google, that actually gets through.