Re: Interesting developments since "Beating the averages"?

Espen Vestre wrote:
This is partly a valid point, lisp probably needs more good sales
people. In many organizations above a certain size (say, most
organizations that have more than 2 organizational layers), decisions
aren't made in such a rational manner that market liberalism prophets
like to think. The winning technologies are usually not the best
ones, but the ones that have the best power point presentations. All
off-the-beaten-track solutions face two obstacles in larger
organizations: The Dilbert Principle and the "nobody got fired for
buying ibm" principle.

That's because currently we only have big corps, because small ones have trouble existing, with regulations and stuff that are costly for small companies, but peanuts for a Big Player.

A market might not exist inside companies, but a market can allow competitors to offer better products (overall), and better technologies would probably give an edge to such competition. In addition, internal inefficiencies are increasingly outsourced, so that the technology areas become actual companies that consist of nothing but.

But I agree about Dilbert and IBM. Overall, only a fair number of competitors will ensure that at least a few might use non-mainstream tech.

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Suffering from Gates-induced brain leakage...
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