From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: Creating markets (long)
Date: 18 Sep 1994 22:22:24 -0400
Date: 1994-09-18T22:22:24-04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <35isl0$q6a@felix.seas.gwu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 359ujr$ep@cmcl2.nyu.edu
In article <359ujr$ep@cmcl2.nyu.edu>,
Richard Kenner <kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu> wrote:
>In article <351m34$1706@watnews1.watson.ibm.com> ncohen@watson.ibm.com writes:
>>It reminds me of the (fictional) story of the corporation offered the
>>opportunity to build the George Washington Bridge as a private
>>enterprise, and in return to receive the rights to all tolls collected.
>>The corporation observed that there were no cars currently driving across
>>the Hudson River between upper Manhattan and Ft. Lee, NJ, and concluded
>>that there was no market for the bridge.
>
>I heard a variant of this story, where the river was unnamed, the
>corporation was IBM, and the marketing study was done by placing a
>boat in the center of the river and counting the number of people
>swimming across.
"Why is there so little support for Ada on the Mac?"
"Good question, Mike. How many Ada programmers do _you_ know that use
Macs?"
I rest my case.
Mike Feldman
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Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1994-09-10 20:59 Creating markets (long) Michael Feldman
1994-09-10 23:19 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-11 17:44 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-11 0:32 ` Roger Labbe
1994-09-11 17:46 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-12 13:46 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-09-15 17:00 ` Richard Kenner
[not found] ` <359ujr$ep@cmcl2.nyu.edu>
1994-09-19 2:22 ` Michael Feldman [this message]
1994-09-19 3:57 ` Robert Dewar
1994-09-22 16:19 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-25 12:59 ` Arthur Evans Jr
1994-09-19 13:59 ` James Hopper
1994-09-21 0:57 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-21 5:32 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1994-09-27 4:30 ` Michael Feldman
1994-09-19 14:36 ` James Hopper
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1994-09-19 21:37 Michael Hagerty
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