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11.4mm is an amazing amount of money to raise, congrats. This is one of the applications I think add real value to offline software; I just wonder how they deal
by redorb 18y ago
11.4mm is an amazing amount of money to raise, congrats. This is one of the applications I think add real value to offline software; I just wonder how they deal with the pressure that Microsoft could duplicate the feature of search or otherh features in the next outlook... and this has to push the price (20mm wasn't enough from microsoft) - how much do they need now to accept the offer? - probably in the 100mm range eh?
- vaksel 18y agoespecially in this market
- steveplace 18y agoGOOG and MSFT were founded in similar market conditions.
- bigbang 18y agoYeah, but they didnt depend on the existance of another product(like Outlook).
- pmjordan 18y ago"the IBM PC", "the consumer internet/www"
- staunch 18y agoIs this like an IQ test question? Which one doesn't belong in this list? 1) The IBM PC 2) The Internet/Web 3) Outlook
- rms 18y ago"organizing the world's information"
- potatolicious 18y agoNone. The poster's point stands: all of the above successful companies built themselves within the ecosystem of yet another product. There's no need to own everything end-to-end, Outlook is a popular enough product that relying on it is not too bad a bet in the short to mid term.
- pmjordan 18y agoI'm not quite sure what you're trying to imply here. I bet there are substantially more people using outlook today than IBM PCs in the early 80s, or web users in 1998. There are viable alternatives to outlook of course, but I suspect it'll be around for some time. At the time the IBM PC was released there were also plenty of viable alternatives, and I suspect it wasn't so obvious which one would win at the time.