Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 05:40:39 01/06/99
Hi: Difficult to answer the question just like it has been worded. With "substantial resources" you can understand very different things, but many other lacks adequate formulation. Are they going to do all from scratch? Then even MS people and resources are probably not enough to match the work of years of so talented people us "our" porgrammers. Or substantial resources means also they can buy entire sources codes, hire people of the existent industry or what? In other words, is not clear if the question suppose a kind of race between the actual programmers and what MS could do with HIS programmers in a year or we are just supposing a huge take over of actual human resorces. But if this last is the meaning of the question, there is no relevance into it because of course if they get Ed, Christophe, Bob, etc, they will get something big not ina year but in a month. So the only situation where the question get meaning is in a race: could or could not MS match what has been done out of MS. But, again, something more specific about conditions of the race should be stablished. If substantial means an effort similar to that putted by IBM weith DB or just to put half a dozen programmers stolen from other areas of MS to work on it. Etc Fernando
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