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"Smart" in this context means "engineering smart", sounds like they lacked some business smarts... There's more than one way to be smart.
by dant 17y ago
"Smart" in this context means "engineering smart", sounds like they lacked some business smarts... There's more than one way to be smart.
- evgen 17y agoEC was chock-full of smart engineers but suffered from the "too many mad scientists, not enough hunchbacks" problem and had a management team grafted on from Creative Labs (which seemed like a smart move at the time since they had brought SoundBlaster to market dominance.) The real tragedy is that the company founders were fixated on the idea that they were creating a mall-like "virtual world" and remainded completely oblivious to the fact that they were sitting on a working scalable, secure MMORPG engine at least five years before anyone else was even close.