Hmm, I think you're not seeing the bigger picture. He's not doing this to recover his costs. He doesn't care about the money. He's doing this to try to bring about the revival of the hard manufacturing base in the US. His goal is not to build parts, his goal is to entice major manufacturers back to the US by offering high-quality, highly skilled local machinists in local shops. If this goes he may make a major contribution to the reversal of the outsourcing trend (which actually is showing a few signs of reversal already).
I worked for MS for 15 years. I'm not completely sure it's productive to dismiss completely the man's approach because of his current employer. There are a lot of good smart people at MS who are trying to make a difference outside those walls. On the other hand, I don't work there anymore (and I use EMC) :-). DougM On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Viesturs Lācis <viesturs.la...@gmail.com>wrote: > 2010/9/28 Igor Chudov <ichu...@gmail.com>: > > I agree with Jon, the guy is so optimistic that it is ridiculous. > > Especially since he has not even started retrofitting the controls. > > 2010/9/28 dave <dengv...@charter.net>: > > Well, he seems to have $$ to burn but doing a reality check with Stuart > > might be helpful. Apparently he has sunk 5 to 10 E 6 into it. Wonder > > what he is smoking?? ;-) > > The guy is from microsoft. That explains everything to me - both > unrealistic approach and the serious cash amounts that are attracted > to this venture. And that is also a reason, why I will not wonder, if > the investment will never be recovered. > > Przemek suggested that somebody should introduce that guy to EMC. I > have a personal belief that he will not give up on using Windows, so > the casino box - Mach3 - is his most likely choice :)) > > Well, I think that there is one thing that he has done properly - PR. > Obviously, experience from his previous work, how to get high PR on a > low product. > > /vie > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances > and start using them to simplify application deployment and > accelerate your shift to cloud computing. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
