[Sigia-l] Exhibit A

[Manu Sharma]

From: "Ziya Oz" <listera at earthlink.net>
[...]
> But even more interesting is the breathtaking account by a
> Microsoft developer on how they actually created it:
[...]
> I spent a full year working on a feature which should've been
> designed, implemented and tested in a week.
[...]
> I point this out [...] to underline the hypocrisy and utter
> incompetence of an organization that sets "best practices" for the
> rest of the software industry
[...]
> If you ever needed evidence against design by committee or why
> Design leadership is crucial in your next presentation, look no
> further.

It is worthy to add here that the developer now works at Google, the
company that is the complete antithesis of Microsoft in everyway.
>From what I've read, teams at Google are no more than 3-4 people,
their meetings are few and extremely short and the developers have
complete freedom to work. Google refuses to believe that what is out
there ("best practices") is what the user needs and continues to
innovate to come up with its own solutions.

The stock price of these two companies since Google's IPO two years
ago reflects where each approach is taking them.

             27-Aug-04   26-Nov-06   Gain
MSFT    $27.46         $29.76       8.38%
GOOG   $85.00         $505.00     494.12%


Thanks,
Manu