On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/economy-40/decline-kodak- > > offers-lessons-us-business > > > > A story on Marketplace, transcript and audio. Interesting reader > > comments also. > > > > Tom C. > > they say it offers a lesson for US business, but IBM did the same thing - > twice (DOS and Oracle) - and has managed to recover. > > B
But IBM merely had to hire and/or shift software architects and developers into the rebuilding project and jump-start it. The infrastructure for computer software is all there. This article is pointing out how, if you let entire product categories go, then the manufacturing know-how, the staff, designers, all the infrastructure goes too. Think about another category that was big up until the 1970's then disappeared from North America: televisions and hifi. If the US wanted to build that consumer electronics again, it would have to start absolutely from scratch. There's nothing there. No supply chain, no designers, no manufacturing, nada. All TVs and hifi stuff is now made in the Pac Rim somewhere. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
