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Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 11:02:47 +0100
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On Thu, 12 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 16:14:48 +0100, D wrote:
>
>> As a small business owner, I say... this is the truth! It is absolutely
>> incredible the shit big companies can do, and still survive and thrive!
>
> That's a discussion I had with the company president several times. One of
> the VPs was always chasing the big sales. My argument was a company like
> Lockheed Martin could win the bid, fuck it up completely, get sued, and
> shrug it off; we couldn't.
>
> That came to realization when Lockheed won the bid for an emergency
> dispatch system for the City of London. They failed to deliver, were sued
> for breach of contract and non-performance, and went on to their next
> scam.

Oh... the many storage companies that promised (and sold) the wonders of 
compression and deduplication, and thanks to them, a tiny little 
installation would suffice. A few months on, and the customer had to 
expand the system massively because the estimate figures did not hold. 
Storage company happy, rich, and the customer continuing to commit the 
same mistakes again and again and again. ;)

So you know the company president? You must indeed be a powerful man! Or 
the president must be a special president who actually talks to employees? 
Or a bit of both perhaps!