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Valiant Westland

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    Linden Lab's New CEO

    Welcome Rod.  Good fortune in your new role at Linden Lab.

    It's no surprise that LL has hired a gaming-oriented CEO.  There is clearly a ton of money to be made on games.

    There is a ton of competition in the MMORPG space.  Does LL  think SL can really go head to head with the Top 10 MMORPG Games?

    Rob has great experience with the SIMs.  Perhaps we'll finally see LL implement shrink-wrapped starter kits and expansion packs for SL!  I've suggested this, along with contests to reward content creators, who create best-of-class virtual designs, with inclusiion and co-op advertising in the shink-wrapped content CDs.  Note:  All of this content could/should be digitally watermarked, to prevent it from being re-labled / resold on the grid!

    I just fired off a cover letter and updated PowerPoint presentation, that I previously forwarded to the former CEOs, detailing how LL  can/should develop a VAR channel to target the SMB (Small to  Medium-size Business) community, including SMG (GOV), Technical  Training, JITE (Just In Time Education), Continuing Education and  Association prospects.  I continue to believe that a truly immersive  virtual experience, coupled with appropriate levels of support &  training, can be a valuable business tool for many organizations.

    Linden Lab should hedge their bets by creating an offering for the  SMB market that is at LEAST as competitive as Teleplace.  However, without a channel  distribution model, with appropriate marketing, sales and support to the  channel by LL, it will never happen.

    Throwing the baby (business) out with the bathwater (Enterprise) is a  knee jerk overreaction to bad management, marketing and execution.  If  Linden Lab puts all its eggs in one basket (gaming) again and throws all its  efforts into yet another highly competitive, high cost of penetration  market and fails, SL will be gone forever!

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