Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Thu, 12 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 16:14:48 +0100, D wrote:
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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!

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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.
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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!