Top 10 Things Steve Ballmer tells his Closest Friends about Microsoft’s SharePoint

Steve Ballmer

Let’s put things in perspective…

SHAREPOINT EVERYONE ELSE

You can’t stop the bullet train, you can only hope to connect with it.

I tell my competitors, ‘that if you see a bandwagon, it’s too late.’

If an Airplane followed the same development cycle as SharePoint, a Boeing 747 today would get a million miles per gallon, cost $1000, and travel 100,000 miles per hour.

There’s an enormous number of SharePoint Admin who can relax on the job

What he secretly says about them

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Kept trying to tell Jive CEO Tony Zingale it's best to wait until a product is out of beta before you file for an IPO.

Word is IBM has built a thinking chip; so they're now in the process of replacing the Connections Software development team.

Notice that the fear of computers becoming I Intelligent and taking over the world has entirely disappeared from the media? Seems to me, this coincides with the release of Oracle’s Business Intelligence Suite.

If you make something idiot proof evolution will insure the rapid emergence of a better idiot.

We once considered Jive as a product name, but worried its meaning of deceptive, exaggerated or meaningless talk might be a liability.

If IBM’s, Thomas Watson were alive today h he’d instead say, ‘I think there’s a world

market for about 5 Connections Computers

"I would love to change the world, but harmon.ie won't give me the source code"

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