Linux and VA in particular about a revolution. I know that's preaching to the converted a little, however every revolution suffers set backs. The economy is in the shits accross the board! Not just IT companys are hurting right now. Everybody from supermarkets to pharmatuticals and defense are all in the same boat. When non-tech companys are not buying computers what are the tech companys supposed to do? Sell to each other? I don't think Scott McNealy is going to place and order at Apple for a thousand G4s.
This is the first recession that the Information age has weathered, and being relativly new to the buissness world it is not supprising that a few well liked companys are going to sink.
A analogy I like to use when thinking about buissness is each company is a boat permantly out at sea. When the economy is great (circa 1999) everybody is floating along, making money doing thier own thing with consumers buying lots of products. A recession is like a storm. Sometimes it's not so bad and the waters get a little rough. Othertimes it's a hurricane, and some of the smaller boats get lost among the waves.
I think this is a not perfect, but decent paradigm of thinking about the state of IT today. The reason why we don't hear about auto manufacters, and other business going out of bussiness so much is they have been around for a while and weathered a few storms in thier history, in other words they know when to batten down the hatches or if that dosen't work use thier large size and cash reserves to hold out for clearer skys.
VA doesn't seem to have the latter to fall back to, and so they must try the best they can. Cutting the hardware section might prove to be a fatal mistake or a lifesaver. After all they could be counting on cutting the slow server sales now, and reentering the market in a year or so. All companys no matter the ideology behind them want to survive and no descision is made unless it is thought to help the company in the long run. Relax, everybody is hurting. Things will get better after all this isn't the great depression we're dealing with. Hang in there when everything clears up and those jackasses get there shit together at the nasdaq, people will want new toys, servers voice controlled cars, Robby Robots, and lots of crazy shit and we know of a certain open source operating system that seems to be able to do it all.
so it's expensive now. So what, how much was the univac? pre reorded MIT lectures, damn i hope Kip Thorne and Stephen Hawking are around when this takes off.
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Linux and VA in particular about a revolution. I know that's preaching to the converted a little, however every revolution suffers set backs. The economy is in the shits accross the board! Not just IT companys are hurting right now. Everybody from supermarkets to pharmatuticals and defense are all in the same boat. When non-tech companys are not buying computers what are the tech companys supposed to do? Sell to each other? I don't think Scott McNealy is going to place and order at Apple for a thousand G4s. This is the first recession that the Information age has weathered, and being relativly new to the buissness world it is not supprising that a few well liked companys are going to sink. A analogy I like to use when thinking about buissness is each company is a boat permantly out at sea. When the economy is great (circa 1999) everybody is floating along, making money doing thier own thing with consumers buying lots of products. A recession is like a storm. Sometimes it's not so bad and the waters get a little rough. Othertimes it's a hurricane, and some of the smaller boats get lost among the waves. I think this is a not perfect, but decent paradigm of thinking about the state of IT today. The reason why we don't hear about auto manufacters, and other business going out of bussiness so much is they have been around for a while and weathered a few storms in thier history, in other words they know when to batten down the hatches or if that dosen't work use thier large size and cash reserves to hold out for clearer skys. VA doesn't seem to have the latter to fall back to, and so they must try the best they can. Cutting the hardware section might prove to be a fatal mistake or a lifesaver. After all they could be counting on cutting the slow server sales now, and reentering the market in a year or so. All companys no matter the ideology behind them want to survive and no descision is made unless it is thought to help the company in the long run. Relax, everybody is hurting. Things will get better after all this isn't the great depression we're dealing with. Hang in there when everything clears up and those jackasses get there shit together at the nasdaq, people will want new toys, servers voice controlled cars, Robby Robots, and lots of crazy shit and we know of a certain open source operating system that seems to be able to do it all.
so it's expensive now. So what, how much was the univac? pre reorded MIT lectures, damn i hope Kip Thorne and Stephen Hawking are around when this takes off.