[Info-vax] Maybe a bit OT, maybe not.. in any case an interesting article

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/13/2012 6:20 AM, Michael Kraemer wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj schrieb:
>> DEC/CPQ/HP did not ruin your career.
>>
>> The guy that told you 25 years ago that it was a good approach
>> in the IT business to learn one technology and stick to that for
>> life did.
>
> And what if he'd recommended Weendoze?

That would have been 15 years ago not 25.

In that case he would have some years left.

But eventually Windows will die as well.

>> It is not the case. Technologies come and technologies go all
>> the time.
>
> So when can we expect M$ to go away?

MS is a company not a technology.

Companies can stay around as long as they can keep being in
on the new technologies.

Hard to say if MS will be able to do that. They missed both
internet and smartphones.

Arne