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Cost of Split Energy

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Every business relationship you ever get into should have a very deep appreciation for the split costs.  Put simply, how quickly can I disengage from this relationship.  After some interesting comments by Steve Jobs on Microsoft (gotta love his panache) — Steve Ballmer discusses this exact point — the long dance with IBM in the early days of Microsoft cost the Windows consumer product innovation.