[Info-vax] Digital had it al(most)

[JF Mezei]

John Smith (who cares if I'm the one @ HP - if here's even still there)
wrote:
> http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/google-as-xerox-parc/all/ 


Good to know that some Digital DNA ended up at Google and wasn't lost.

I was recently at a conference with a very interesting speaker on new vs
old economy and new vs old companies.

Much of it was focused on how the young and highly succesfull copanies
such as Google are very different in how their are runned/managed
because they are lead with people who no only understand the internet,
but also dig how it runs and grew up with it.

So it is interesting to see that despite this, Google still hired
"mature" R&D folks.

And it is interesting to see "mainframe" (alpha) mentality folks from
DEC end up at Google and champion the "lets get a gazillion PCs to run
Google instead of a few large servers".