Tech Pro's Sound Off on Google IPO
Published August 22, 2004
Robert Shaw
Chief executive officer, ArcSight
I'm very excited about the company. It just shows that great ideas and innovation, experienced management and profitability still drive great valuations. The auction process, jealousy, poor press and a number of minor administrative missteps probably handicapped the opening, but I see tremendous upside once the dust settles. Their careful use of cash and a relatively cheap infrastructure give them a huge advantage. Now it's time to let the innovative genes drive them to the next level..
Christopher Lochhead
Chief marketing officer, Mercury Interactive Corp.
This is not a return to 1999. Silicon Valley is in a very different place, and there are very few billion-dollar startups. The bubble has burst. There has been a nuclear winter in technology spending, and we've moved from the new economy to the show-me economy.
The Google story yet to be told is that when the company started six years ago, the general industry opinion was that the search market was mature and the players had been chosen. By building this company during the worst economic downturn in modern technology history, they proved that with an innovative technology and business model, you can build one of the fastest growing startups of all time in any economy.
After four years of a technology IPO wasteland, this is Revenge of the Nerds, with the geeks running away with the money and the bunnies.
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Phil..
Perhaps if you had taken the entire headline into consideration you would have noticed this post is about the Google IPO (so you won't get confused, IPO stands for initial public offering).
As far as I can tell the word Pros means: an argument or evidence in affirmation. In other words like Pros and Cons. The word Pro's in this context connotates professionals. It is not unusual to shorten words in headlines due to space constraints. Next time I will take your comment into consideration and instead put Professionals in the headline, instead of Pro's insuring less confusion on the part of some.
Any comment on the Google IPO or the comments of the pro's (professionals)?
bob
Philip is correct. You make "pro" [abbreviation of "professional"] plural by adding an 's' without the apostrophe. So "pros" is the plural form of the abbreviation, and "pro's" is the possessive form of the abbreviation [singular, not plural].
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Gee, I came here because I saw the headline and wondered who turned off which tech pro's sound, and now it turns out that it isn't that at all. In fact, there is more than one tech pro, and apparently they do not possess the sound which is off, but rather are sounding off.
So then it seems that instead of: Tech Pro's Sound Off, it should be: Tech Pros Sound Off. As in, no apostrophe.