Comments on: Interview with Marc Frons – CTO – New York Times Digital – Part 2 http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2008/03/12/interview-with-marc-frons-cto-new-york-times-digital-part-2/ Mon, 08 Mar 2010 03:09:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: vendor management http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2008/03/12/interview-with-marc-frons-cto-new-york-times-digital-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2824 vendor management Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:32:13 +0000 http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2008/03/12/interview-with-marc-frons-cto-new-york-times-digital-part-2/#comment-2824 Having been involved in a handful of M&A transactions from the operations perspective, I think it would have been very hard for the two business units to work together. The software team at Yahoo would have been crushed by the Microsoft team because it was clear that they are the players. It would be a great challance to be on the management team or even to have them as an important vendor right now. It would have taken a year to sort out between them. Having been involved in a handful of M&A transactions from the operations perspective, I think it would have been very hard for the two business units to work together. The software team at Yahoo would have been crushed by the Microsoft team because it was clear that they are the players. It would be a great challance to be on the management team or even to have them as an important vendor right now. It would have taken a year to sort out between them.

]]> By: Chris DiBona http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2008/03/12/interview-with-marc-frons-cto-new-york-times-digital-part-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2057 Chris DiBona Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:58:28 +0000 http://howsoftwareisbuilt.com/2008/03/12/interview-with-marc-frons-cto-new-york-times-digital-part-2/#comment-2057 Please see http://code.gooogle.com/opensource and http://code.google.com/soc to understand that google has done a lot of very real, decent and substantive work creating, releasing and helping open source software development. Scott, you and Marc both really need to do your homework. Please see http://code.gooogle.com/opensource and http://code.google.com/soc to understand that google has done a lot of very real, decent and substantive work creating, releasing and helping open source software development.

Scott, you and Marc both really need to do your homework.

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