Dianne Morgan is the CEO of VantagePoint Software, the
developer of the ubiquitous Atlas Operating System. The Department
of Justice dragged VPS into court over alleged anti-trust violations and
won the case.
Dianne was jailed for contempt and had spent several weeks in a solitary
cell, when her attorney came to bring her the bad news that the judge
had decided to split the company into a number of smaller entities.
This is what she said to her attorney:
One of the guards – the greasy-looking bastard who
thinks he’s a stud – just gave me the bad news. Can I tell you
something? He
came into my cell last night and tried to put his paws on me. I noticed
his fingers were swollen this morning. He’s lucky I didn’t break them.
I always knew we were going to lose that so-called
anti-trust trial. The fix was in; don’t try to tell me anything else.
Our software company was getting too big, too powerful, too effective.
They knew that once Ray completes the speech recognition project, we’ll
blow away the competition and dominate the operating system market.
Didn’t I tell you Ray would come through, even though he’s got that
drinking problem!
Okay, so I lost my temper at the trial. I should
have kept it together, but that slimebag lawyer they brought in
practically called me a whore. On national TV! I won’t forget that.
Six weeks in prison because I stood up for what I believe in, because
they can’t stand how big we’ve become, how much the people respect me.
So they’re going to break the company into a
research lab and a bunch of sales companies. They’re leaving me in
charge of the research lab. How nice of them. I have to report to a
government bureaucrat – I’m being redundant – and get his approval every
time I go to the bathroom.
Like hell!
Well, I’ve had time to do some thinking. They
believe I’m just going to go meekly into the night, but they don’t really know me.
They don’t understand how I built the biggest software company in the
world. They don’t understand how I got where I am.
Here’s the plan …
“Ronco introduces us first to a powerful and disturbingly enigmatic
woman named Dianne Morgan, a software company CEO out for the deepest
kind of revenge after being humiliated in a courtroom during an
anti-trust trial. Dianne is seductive, magnetic, intelligent, and
utterly capable of doing anything to further her cause.” ----- Marie
Jones, Reviewer, Bookideas.com
“Ray is a
complex, driven man whose passion for work matches a passion for
alcohol. His anguish over his failures with wife and sons is
compelling. Dianne is more enigmatic but fascinating.” -----
Jeanette Cottrell, Reviewer, eBook Reviews Weekly, Author of
Sliding on Rainbows
"Dianne is charming, sexually confident and aggressive, ruthless and
relentless in her obsession to destroy the competition, the
government, and anyone else who stupidly stands in her way." -----
Kevin R. Tipple, Reviewer, Blue Iris Journal
