On 2006-12-22, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Intuit: Giant Killer
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>| Battling Microsoft has been the kiss of death for many software
>| firms. Intuit is the perennial exception. A decade ago antitrust
>| regulators quashed Microsoft's takeover bid for then tiny rival
>| Intuit. Then in 2000 the Redmond giant spent $1.1 billion to
>| acquire accounting software shop Great Plains. In 2005 it
>| launched an accounting software directly targeting Intuit's
>| customers.
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> http://www.forbes.com/2006/12/21/best-managed-software-biz-cz_07platinum_cs_1221intuit.html?partner=yahootix
> http://tinyurl.com/yg9xxa
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> What? No innovation? Just acquisition? Just like Oracle? Just what they
> intend to do with Novell?
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_acquired_by_Microsoft_Corporation
Ack! They bought Lionhead this year. There goes Black and White 3. This
also says they bought Great Plains while the link above suggests they
couldnt but made competing software.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictitious_company_names_used_by_Microsoft
That's an eye-opener.
> Couldn't find the SCO sockpuppet in the latter...
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