Comments on: Microsubtlety http://andyonsoftware.com/2007/03/microsubtlety/ Andy Hayler, founder of Kalido and The Information Difference, gives his views on the enterprise software market. Issues covered include data warehousing, master data management, business intelligence and data quality. Tue, 25 May 2010 17:55:31 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Andy Hayler http://andyonsoftware.com/2007/03/microsubtlety/comment-page-1/#comment-25080 Andy Hayler Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:30:16 +0000 http://andyonsoftware.com/2007/03/microsubtlety/#comment-25080 It certainly seems to create an odd situation, yet the board should still have a role to play, even in family owned businesses like Ford. It looks like MSTR is operating on that well known "one man, one vote" principle of certain African democracies i.e. I am the man, and I have the vote. It certainly seems to create an odd situation, yet the board should still have a role to play, even in family owned businesses like Ford. It looks like MSTR is operating on that well known “one man, one vote” principle of certain African democracies i.e. I am the man, and I have the vote.

]]> By: Alex http://andyonsoftware.com/2007/03/microsubtlety/comment-page-1/#comment-25077 Alex Mon, 19 Mar 2007 12:20:38 +0000 http://andyonsoftware.com/2007/03/microsubtlety/#comment-25077 It's pretty interesting- I noted the purchase he in Feb. Of course MicroStrategy is not a normal public company. According to the 10-K, Saylor has class B shares worth 10 votes each compared to the 1 vote provided by the class A publicly traded shares. This gives him 73.7% of the total voting power.... http://www.seriousaboutconsulting.com/2007/02/article-watch-founder-driven-software.html It’s pretty interesting- I noted the purchase he in Feb.

Of course MicroStrategy is not a normal public company. According to the 10-K, Saylor has class B shares worth 10 votes each compared to the 1 vote provided by the class A publicly traded shares. This gives him 73.7% of the total voting power….

http://www.seriousaboutconsulting.com/2007/02/article-watch-founder-driven-software.html

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