I must say, Jerry Yang is a person to be admired for trying to keep Yahoo going. From an early article I read about the merger, I remembered one part that really rang true.
Former Yahoo employees who know Yang have no doubt he is exhausting all avenues that might allow his company to escape Microsoft’s clutches. "Jerry bleeds purple and gold (Yahoo’s corporate colors)," said Rob Solomon, a former Yahoo executive who spent six years at the company before leaving in 2006. "He always envisioned building a company that would be around for 100 years, not just 14 years."
I admire Yahoo’s fight against Microsoft to thwart the advances of a possible take over. Although, I would venture to say AO’Hell’ isn’t much better. If I was given the choice to have to deal with the CEO and the board members from Microsoft, I two would choose AOL. But I believe that both paths lead to the possibilities of yahoo becoming a distant memory of the beginning steps of the internet.
