Microsoft Volume I

5581.222 - 5604.31 Ben Gilbert

Don Estridge, who was one of the leaders of Project Chess, he would later say that the company realized that if you're going to compete against people who started in a garage, obviously a reference to Apple here, you have to start in a garage yourself. And then Lou Gerstner, who later would take over IBM, would describe this whole Boca project as, quote, the way you get an elephant to tap dance.