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 There is such a thing as getting to the battle too early while all the resources and the combatants are still getting positioned. See the history of Nimitz and Halsey in the South Pacific, WWII. It is often bad to be the first penguin. It assumes all the risks for the same number of fish. It is safer to be the last penguin, but the risk is that all of the fish will be eaten. Better to be the third penguin. Little risk and no guilt for pushing the first penguin in. The second penguin can't eat all the fish that fast. Timing and position are market and business judgement decisions. Vision and technology are trade. len From: Dan Mabbutt [mailto:Seigfried@m...] > "What is to be done" is that we have to "sell" (literally or > figuratively) the tools by pointing to the successful > applications that they built, not by appealing to the fear > of not being on the Next Big Thing bandwagon. Yeah ... very true ... but there is something to be said for the value of actual vision in management too. I had the dubious priviledge of doing the very first demo of the web that the President of a mid-sized company I worked for had ever seen. I was using a 300 Baud dialup connection through a local university, and there wasn't a great deal to be seen. (Our state government had a very nice site and I found a few companies in our business with informational sites.) But, of course, pages took a long time to load and I had to reconnect a few times during the demo. I can still remember the guy basically saying, "This will never catch on. The whole thing is a waste of money." Later, the company had to purchase their URL because somebody else registered it first. We can blame ourselves for not selling the idea well enough. (Which is certainly true much of the time ... I still wonder if I could have done a better job in the demo.) Or we can choose to work with people who DO have vision. "You pays you money and you takes you chances!" ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> 
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