[Sigia-l] Are you ready for it?

[David R. Austen]

Hello, Ziya, and all:

I suppose everybody got the "Frank" joke (cheers, Chris) but perhaps
there may have been a couple who did not. . .

Ayn Rand's book "The Fountainhead" is an excellent yarn (and this is
ironic) about an idealistic, uncompromising young architect who came
very close to self-destruction because the establishment would not
honor his dreams with their checkbooks until he accepted changes.

(No Dreamweaver pun is intended.)

Anyway, the tragic hero in this book may in fact be modelled  on the
life of Frank Lloyd Wright.

http://www.franklloydwright.org/

I would also highly recommend the film by the same name.

http://www.moviefolio.com/movies/Fountainhead_The_1949.cfm


David Austen








Wednesday, August 6, 2003, 4:36:51 PM, you wrote:

L> "Richard_Dalton at vanguard.com" wrote:

>> Ziya - your model of a small organization sounds wonderfully utopian,
>> however, back in the Real World (TM) there is a need for large
>> organizations and plenty of them around.

L> Oh yeah, the Real World, the rest of us girlie men wouldn't understand it.
L> :-)

L> For you, an anecdote:

L> About two years ago, conference room of one of the largest financial
L> companies in the world, 100% Windows shop, about a dozen VP-and-up
L> managers/IT folk discussing a huge, multi-million dollar web app.

L> I present a certain approach, open, flexible, scalable and ecumenical. One
L> guy gets up and, with dripping sarcasm, says "back on our planet [sounds
L> familiar?], we use COM/NT, end of discussion." I spend the next 20 minutes
L> explaining why that's a self-limiting approach and make a prediction that
L> well before the decade is over Linux will gain sufficient traction in the
L> financial industry for it to be considered and planned for now. No success.

L> Two years later, of the dozen or so people in that room, today only three
L> remain, the rest, along with 15,000 others from the same company, have been
L> laid off. The irony? Their projects/jobs have been outsourced to India and
L> Russia, where they are now, surprise, mostly Linux-based projects!

L> Yeah, gimme some of that large org religion. :-)

L> Ziya
L> Nullius in Verba 


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Best wishes,

David