MicrostockGroup

Wow.

It seem like a shame that a company with such an impressive history can have such a ill turn of events.  I guess this just goes to show that even the top dog can easily topple given changes in the market place and a few poor decision.  I bet 15 years ago anyone would have called you crazy if you were to suggest Kodak would go under.

http://www.togtech.com/kodak-files-for-bankruptcy-has-plans-to-finish-restructuring-by-2013/

.. yeah, my sister-in-law also bought a kodak digital about 6 years ago .. I wasn't all that impressed with it. 

I hope they recover. I don't like to see a company that made history decay like this.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16625725

  It's true! They invented the digital camera. How is it that they don't rule the world? They seemed to just fall asleep and wake up in bankruptcy. As for Quark- I always felt that they treated users like the enemy- no flexibility on anything. Kodak was like a old man just taking a nap.

Now I have. Nice one.

Hey wait I had an Advantix, Mini Disc and PDA? 

Yeah nice steal on the Network rant.

That was brilliant. Too bad they don't seem to have executed that plan well enough and in time.

Analogy:  Railroads were king in America, but they were easily toppled because their owners thought they were in the railroad business.  They never learned that they were in the transportation business.  Likewise, it would appear that the Kodak folks thought they were in the film business, when in reality they were in the imaging business.  I foresee a similar fate for the oil companies who don't realize that they're in the energy business, not the oil business.

Well it's not just them, how's Blockbuster doing? Remember Polaroid? Bell and Howell? Borders or Barnes and Noble? Your local newspaper and hundreds of print magazines? How's AOL doing? And now that I think of where I'm writing, it makes me wonder about a giant of the Microstock industry which seems to be foundering? Odysseus didn't win his battles because he was bigger and stronger, it was because of cunning and adaptation to the situations. And for those interested in Human history, Neanderthal Man shouldn't be extinct? 

About 2 minutes into this video is the crux of the whole issue.  Some people inside Kodak STILL think film is coming back.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/ex-marketing-chief-hayzlett-discusses-kodak-bankruptcy/2012/01/19/gIQAgyWGCQ_video.html