Ozzie Can't Program... (Score 1)

...as well as he can develop. To say that Ray Ozzie can "write instructions" better than someone else, is probably not true and...misses the point. Take Lotus Notes, for example. It wasn't Ray's coding that made this dog hunt. It was his vision. First, he combined an email engine with a database engine. Nobody's done that, even today. What's special about that? Folks can collaborate using the killer app - email - to do so. They can schedule conference rooms, submit expense reports and successfully submit, review and edit corporate documents through a chain of knowledge workers. It's also special that any views/lists/reports of said collaboration can be easily presented AND, when changed, easily updated/reindexed. This reindexing scheme is instantaneous and revolutionary. FoxPro/DBase sucked by comparison! Finally, what makes Notes fly is its innate and simple ability to replicate itself to other business locations. Almost zero conflicts from people updating similar databases at different locations! (Plus, simple rules to resolve those conflicts). Having been a developer and user of Lotus Notes I believe it is still the best business collaboration tool on the market today. And, if you want to create a Website business which has many small businesses using email to sell and communicate, it's virtually an untapped resource! So, dear hearts, Ray Ozzie is a visionary developer, not programmer. Programming is just a tool to express his visionary and development genius!