From: "Geo." 

"mike"  wrote in message
news:37hg03hkpmodr2ng4ku22f7krhrqp1r6pm{at}4ax.com...

> Time has always seemed to be Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT ) ally. In the
> company lore, the software giant takes three cracks at a market before
> establishing supremacy. The Windows operating system stumbled for years
> before achieving domination; so did Microsoft's server software.

The difference is the magic number. For canned software that number is pi,
versions beyond 3.14, for the internet the number is e 2.718

Nobody knows the exact reason for these relationships but many believe it's
because canned software must come full circle before it's accepted while
web stuff just has to show up in the logs to be considered accepted.

Geo.

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