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Re:Pitching VCs? Better know about IBM's latest OS/2 by carterschonwald on Thursday August 07, 2008 @10:24AM (#269642)
Its not so much the not understanding the OS/2 part, but moreso the fact that Arthur Anderson is about as disgraced as any auditing/accounting firm can be while still having profitable divisions, which should sound off the alarm bells.

Is it really reasonable to expect a business person to be familiar with the history of countless major software artifacts that are essentially defunct, and/or similarly many contemporary research projects that also produce possibly usable software artifacts?

Re:Pitching VCs? Better know about IBM's latest OS/2 by cstejerean on Thursday August 07, 2008 @10:47AM (#269654)
I wouldn't expect the business people to be familiar with OS2. But I would expect them to admit they have no clue what it is.
Re:Pitching VCs? Better know about IBM's latest OS/2 by Agathos on Thursday August 07, 2008 @01:02PM (#269772)
Does Andersen have any profitable divisions? Heck, does it have any divisions?
Re:Pitching VCs? Better know about IBM's latest OS/2 by byrneseyeview on Thursday August 07, 2008 @02:49PM (#269879)
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3AACN

Andersen has been shut down, but their consultants seem to be doing okay.