From: mike 

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 06:28:34 -0400, "Geo."  wrote:

>"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.

Probably the best explanation I've seen...

 /m

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