Ben Gilbert: belief

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…So they’re casting about. Craig Mundie becomes one of those two Bills internally. They also know who is probably the perfect person to take the other job. That is Ray Ozzie. Ray of course being the author of Lotus Notes. Ray is a legendary developer, and he has great relationships within Microsoft because Ray built Lotus Notes, not at Lotus but at his own software studio startup, and Lotus was just his publisher. He’s known all the Microsoft guys for years. This is so fascinating. I never put two and two together. But Lotus 1-2-3 and Lotus Notes were not peers together. Lotus 1-2-3 was developed by Lotus. Lotus Notes is actually Ray’s company. It’s almost like the way a game studio works. Ray and his company are building it. Their publisher is Lotus. But Ray can have agreements with Microsoft where he’s privy to information that Lotus is not. Ray is really close in the fold with the Microsoft folks. I think he was even a contractor working on, maybe the project was Landman, but he was actively contributing to other Microsoft products. Because he had his own software company.…

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