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Subject:Re: Salary bell curve: on the downside From:Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- progeny -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 14 May 2001 11:28:50 -0700
Elna Tymes wrote:
>
> Bruce Byfield wrote:
>
> > If I'm wrong, I hope someone will correct me, but my impression is that,
> > just as other parts of the continent never had as big a share of the
> > prosperity as Silicon Valley, they don't have as big a share of the
> > depression.
>
> You're both wrong and right.
It's Monday. I'll settle for 50% :-)
> With Dell and Compaq and Gateway and other
> computer makers laying off thousands, I think it's safe to say that the slow economy
> is industry-related, and only incidentally geographic.
What you say makes sense, but I suspect that the hardware market is
saturated in a way that the software market isn't. That is, there are
some signs that the North American market for hardware has peaked to the
point where people are only buying replacements for existing equipment,
but I'm not sure that software is quite at the same point. And, even if
it is, in theory, a new type of software could still find a market
fairly easily, the way that peer-to-peef tools like Napster did.
--
Bruce Byfield 604.421.7177 bbyfield -at- progeny -dot- com
"They say you get used to a war
But that doesn't mean that the war isn't on."
-Geoff Pearson, "If They Come in the Morning"
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