[geeks] blech!

[James]

At 09:43 PM 1/23/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 21:39, James wrote:
> > At 09:32 PM 1/23/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> > >On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 13:46, James wrote:
> > > > MS acquired my company a few months ago. My job is done at the end 
> of May
> > > > but they want be to be "part of the family" till then.
> > >
> > >That sucks, what company was it?
> > >
> >
> > Vicinity.com
>
>aah, bound to be assimilated into mappoint, there are worse MS products
>to be assimilated into.....

Its the ASSimilation that I find insulting. They act like they were the 
market leader (75% of their customers were their own properties like 
Expedia). Vicinity  owned the market and with good reason (better data, 
better delivery, better customer service).