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IP: Yes, we'll have no web site
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 17:16:51 +0900
------ Forwarded Message From: "Kedrosky, Paul" <paul.kedrosky () commerce ubc ca> Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 21:21:14 -0700 To: "'farber () cis upenn edu'" <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: Yes, we'll have no web site Hi Dave -- While more and more execs I know don't have cell phones -- those are for the worker bees underneath them -- and an increasing number eschew email devices -- same argument -- I ran into a story today (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/0 2/BU13386.DTL&type=printable) about an entire company passing on this web stuff. Texas Pacific Group, the relatively little-known billion-dollar buyout firm behind deals like J. Crew, Beringer, Bally, Del Monte, Ducati motorcycles, America West Airlines, Continental Airlines, has decided not to bother removing its "Coming soon" notice at its web site. Why bother, the company says, "...under the belief that people who need to know about the firm already do -- and that providing easy information to its rivals is just dumb." All technologies eventually go full circle, don't they ... Paul Kedrosky Faculty of Commerce University of British Columbia paul.kedrosky () ubc ca 604.822.8894 ------ End of Forwarded Message For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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