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10/25/10 12:06 AM

#107131 RE: go seek #107127

Biomaven a good example of why money is not always the only factor in developing a technology or meeting an end-point is all around us. Look at the example of R&D $'s Microsoft pumped into search technology before Google. They must have outspent Google (who was at one time a puny start-up) immensely, but were unable (and are still unable) to deliver a similarly effective product. There are many examples of this (Myspace vs. Facebook), etc...

Money is usually necessary, but not necessarily sufficient... Wheeler even alluded to this (cautiously) on the recent CC when he came out and said he "hopes" that the technology differentiation will give MNTA the sole generic "for many years to come" (he of course can't give a 100% guarantee, but he did seem awfully confident)