Silicon Valley - The Geeks Are Back In Charge?

Posted by simoniker on Sunday October 26, 2003 @02:29AM from the rain-rain-go-away-suits? dept.

securitas writes "The New York Times' Steve Lohr reports on a fundamental shift taking place in Silicon Valley in the post-dotcom era: the geeks are back in charge. New start-ups and companies that survived the bubble 'are based on innovation and are run by people with deep technical skills.' These companies have real technology and a solid technical base that have historically been the bedrock of Silicon Valley - something that was temporarily forgotten during the dotcom bubble. Profiled companies include Tellme Networks (speech recognition), InterTrust (DRM - digital rights management), VMware (virtual machines) and Scalix (Linux e-mail servers)."

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DRM? by gunix · 2003-10-26 02:36 · Score: 4, Troll

"These companies have real technology and a solid technical base
InterTrust (DRM - digital rights management), "

Is it just me, or why do I feel bad when I read "real technology" and DRM in the same text?

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