Larry's Microsoft Vision
from the split-'em-up-in-clones dept
A while back, Larry Ellison suggested that Microsoft be split up, not along product lines, but in 3 equal "clones" and let them compete against each other. I thought that was pretty interesting. And now, someone over at Wired has written up a scenario a few years into the future of what the world might look like if Larry's wish came true.
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Larry is no saint.
Doesn't this sound like Micro$oft's argument for buying Office and Windows?
I'd turn my back to Larry no sonner than I'd turn it to Steve Jobs OR William Gates III.
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