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Hope for MIPS, From Toshiba
CDWert writes: "EE Times is reporting MIPS is teaming up with Toshiba, to develop their next generation 64 bit proccesor. After all the Itanium Speak and X86-64 talk going on here and the premature predictions of MIPS demise, through their inability to fund the next round I thought this would be refresing to MIPS fans." According to the article though, there will be no product until at least a year from now.
I presonally believe you should not accounce a product (or whatever) until it's pretty much ready for release.
Never been in business, have you?
I've worked for a few start-ups, including one that has lasted for almost four years now. In the early stages, a company isn't fueled by sales, usually because there isn't really anything to sell yet. In the early stages, a company is fueled by investment and good press.
The only way to keep investors interested in your company, so they'll keep giving the money you use to keep the lights on and pay your people, is to keep the buzz coming. Investors-- an I'm not talking about VCs here-- want to invest in companies that have a lot of potential in the marketplace, and you generate that potential through press releases, demos, and (sometimes) unsubstantiated announcements.
It's not vaporware at that stage; vaporware is a product that purports to be ready, but isn't.
The almost religious "must please the shareholders" attitude is particularly irritating. Fuck the shareholders if they don't like the way you run YOUR business!
I guess you've never been a shareholder, then. Do you realize that the shareholders actually own the company? So if there is more than one shareholder (other than you) then technically it isn't exclusively "YOUR" business. Thus even if you're Bill Gates, unless you hold the majority shares, if nobody likes you, the next shareholder vote is going to land your on your arrogant ass.
With that aside, I'm sure there is room for discussion on why the shareholders might want to kick you out. Perhaps you aren't making any money for the company (in other words running the company into the ground while still happily collecting a paycheck), or perhaps you make decisions without getting educated opinions first.
Remember, the shareholders own your job.
It's like Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA, may or not have said: You have to get there "fustest with the mostest."