Re: Re: News about Zvi Alon, Ex CEO and Chairman of Netmanage

Friedhelm wrote:

...during that deal in 1997 Zvi took Ecco of the market. In my humbled
opinion as part of the deal requested by MS.

I can add a bit more. I don't know if it will improve anyone's perspective of Zvi
but I can certainly understand at least the basis of his decision.

I spent some significant energy working on getting the code released, etc. As
part of that I was given some insight into the underlying ethos and perspectives
of the players.

AFAIK, Zvi removed Ecco from the market not because of any contractual
requirement at all... it was very personal and more of a sense of embarassment
(not sure that's the right word -- maybe sad resignment?) that he felt he had no
ability to compete against Outlook. And rather than try-and-fail he sensed the
right thing to do was to pull the product and focus his energy elsewhere.

That's why there really WAS willingness to allow an open source release,
combined with a sense that they could not afford to invest significant resources
in doing so... which ultimately became the death knell. Extracting the licensed
NDA (Non-Disclosure) code was estimated to be a costly problem (and IIRC
Borland was not an issue but rather some even more obscure code from other
vendors -- maybe Timex and/or Palm? -- that had managed to get sprinkled
throughout.)

I'm very sad that it didn't work out. If I hadn't already moved away to Colorado,
I still believe I might have been able (as a trusted, NDA-signing, volunteer) to
extract the "bad" code so it could be released. But that was not to be.

All water under the bridge at this point.

Blessings,

Pete

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