[Q] Squeaky Business, WDI, DIS and the world according to a Mouse.

Todd Nathan tnathan at cs.uiuc.edu
Fri Nov 12 02:10:28 UTC 1999


Got an thought  (amazing isn't it), mostly on the stability side for the
SqkCentral folks.

As history points out, when things get bad (for apple say) the good
(like Squeak, SK8, Dylan and others) have a tendancy to go away.
Disney is in the process of announcing some difficult  times with
earnings, one of its strong points, not its stock value.

Is Squeak going to be orphaned like it was 3 years ago due to this
expansion into Asia (read we need some $$$, cut costs helps) and
trying hard for 2-3 and possibly more quarters to get a balanced and
strong 20% growth again?  With the value of DIS stock in the past
10 months going to almost 1/2 of its high value, and nowhere in
net value over the past 12 months, downgraded to a Hold instead
from Strong Buy (significant IMHO) I had to wonder how this plays
for Squeak as a system and product.  In/significant?.

Check out:

http://biz.yahoo.com/n/d/dis-3.html

for more links to all sorts of Disney business related information.

Is Squeak that integral in Disney that unless the SqkCentral building
collapses Squeak is going to be a Disney project?  Does it even need
to be a WDI project?  Is it even a WDI now, or is it more in the  
OpenSource
stage and WDI is just one of the vendors of Squeak?  Or is it more
like somewhere in the gray area in between?

Thanks, just a curious viewer of a particular channel on my local  
cable system ;'P

\t

PS.  On the gossip side, does Eisner even know that Squeak/WDI exists?





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