dqualls

IT. MIS. Automation. It's the only career whose objective is to make yourself obsolete.

"Corporate R&D never worked very well in the first place." Huh?!? The first public fax transmission, the transistor, the first synchronous-sound motion picture, UNIX, C and C++, low-cost fiber optic phone systems, the first Wireless LAN, and numerous laser techonologies were all products of Bell Laboratories corporate R&D.