03.13
Microsoft is always buying up interesting technology providers but rarely, since the tech industry collapse, is much made of it publicly. That’s not the case with Microsoft’s acquisition of Groove Networks and it seems, to me, that there has been a steady rise in the value of such companies for some time now. I’m not talking purely monetary value here, but the value of their offering to the market place. It very much seems that the die-hard view of some persistent entrepreneurs is paying off at last with new tech companies being looked at without raised eyebrows… That hasn’t really happened since 2000/2001 so I think this is a very exciting time to be working in the tech industry.
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Note: I had the chance to hang out with Ray Ozzie out in Tokyo last year for a few days and he was a genuinely nice guy who was demonstrably excited about his company. He was keenly interested in Flash-Lite too – hmmm… 
