| [ MIT ] in KIDS 글 쓴 이(By): Renoir (Apostle ☆맧) 날 짜 (Date): 1998년02월21일(토) 08시56분03초 ROK 제 목(Title): Andrew Wyatt (Lotus) 가 MIT 졸업생들에 � -----Original Message----- From:Andrew_Wyatt/CAM/Lotus@lotus.com [SMTP:Andrew_Wyatt/CAM/Lotus@lotus.com] Sent:Thursday, February 19, 1998 10:51 AM To:MIT졸업생들에게 Subject:MIT Grads Its been a while since I have poked some fun. I especially like the bit in bold........ Andrew p.s. You've got to love that NHL Olympic Hockey Team Network World via Individual Inc. : I recently delivered the keynote address at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's forum on the future of the Internet. The room was chock- full of Digital Equipment employees, and the hidden agenda was the future of Digital. Even then, rumors of a merger with Compaq were rampant. Here was my message: Forbes magazine recently published its list of the 200 wealthiest individuals in high technology. Where were you, MIT graduates? Where were you, Digital alumni? Nowhere. Nada. Not a one. Topping the list were West Coast high-tech entrepreneurs, founders of companies such as Intel, Microsoft, Netscape, Sun Microsystems and Cisco. The list abounded with Berkeley and Stanford engineers and Hewlett-Packard alumni. No. 1 on Forbes' list? Bill Gates - a Harvard dropout, for God's sake. Slightly further down was Steve Ballmer, a Harvard hall mate of Gates'. Wealth seems to be directly proportional to the distance from Bill's former dorm room but does not extend to Digital headquarters in Maynard, Mass. Digital was the original ``hot box'' company. Its engineers were revolutionaries. Its secret weapon was its users, who were the smartest in the business. They would grab each hot box, correct Digital's manual, trade software with one another and thank Digital for the opportunity. And who developed those boxes? MIT engineers. But somewhere, Digital lost its way. The hot boxes were suddenly coming from Apollo or Sun or Silicon Graphics or HP. When Gordon Bell developed the idea of a modular computer family, DECnet was the glue that held it together. Today, internetworking is a multibillion-dollar business that Digital, more than any company, should have owned. Suddenly, the world moved at hyperspeed. The West Coast techies learned about the tight coupling between developing silicon and hardware, while Digital was still thinking that development was an orderly process. MIT and Digital have always had an implicit contract with the greater Boston area. You, MIT graduates and Digital alumni, have broken that contract, and I want to know why. Let me remind you of its provisions: You will be accepted at arguably the finest technology university on the face of the earth, or you will go to work for one of the leading computer innovators in the history of the industry. You will settle in Boston, marry attractive and equally brainy spouses from the Boston area and begin families. And you will start insanely great companies within the shadow of the MIT Golden Dome or the Digital Mill. These companies will grow like crazy, providing employment for thousands of Massachusetts residents and creating even more spinoffs. Do you think your spouses married you for your athletic prowess? Your social skills? Your good looks? Did they want your body or your brains? I have seen your bodies. Enough said. The Yankee Group recently completed its yearly list of the 200 most important companies in computers and communications. Where once Massachusetts would have led, today it is an afterthought. Chipcom has been sold to 3Com and disbanded, Digital's network group has been sold to Cabletron, and now Digital itself has been sold to Compaq. The Internet - for all intents and purposes, the most important technical development since the semiconductor - was invented at MIT and perfected at Digital, yet the companies that are benefiting most seem to be everywhere but Massachusetts. Examples: Cisco, a Stanford spinoff, and Sun, run by Scott McNealy, an ex-Harvard hockey player. MIT and Digital, you have gotten your clocks cleaned by Stanford spinoffs and Harvard jocks. Aren't you ashamed? MIT graduates and Digital alumni, take an F for the decade. You have either sold out for safe and boring jobs on Wall Street or chosen not to be entrepreneurs. The key to Massachusetts industry has been people who are smart enough to go to school or work here and not bright enough to leave. MIT graduates and Digital alumni, that's supposed to be you. Where are Sanborn and Apollo and Chipcom and Cascade? All are local high-tech companies that today are divisions of the West Coast's HP, 3Com and Ascend. Where is Digital? A division, like Tandem, of a Texas company. So what if the weather is nicer in Silicon Valley or Houston. Adversity is good for your geek soul. You have a higher calling, and we need you here in the frozen Northeast. Fulfill your obligations, build companies here and freeze your butts off with the rest of us. Our only real asset is Yankee ingenuity, the brainpower of the region. You have trifled with the galactic order and breached your implicit contracts with MIT and Digital. Now go make it right. I hope we won't have to have this little discussion again. Anderson is founder and president of The Yankee Group, a Boston-based consultancy. He tries to keep his skepticism from degenerating into rampant cynicism, a battle he appears to be losing. He can be reached at handerson@yankeegroup.com. [02-18-98 at 17:25 EDT, Copyright 1998, Network World, File: x0218203.9dn] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 살아가는 것이란 변화한다는 것이며, Hoon (Paul) Kim 완벽하게 되는 것은 끊임없이 변화함으로 hpkim@ALUM.MIT.EDU 이뤄지는 것이다. (집)617-354-5694, (삐삐)617-668-7030 -- 김 훈, 1972~현재 http://www.shinbiro.com/~Renoir |