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To: brushwud who wrote (176955)	2/8/2004 9:39:05 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 186894

"So all three companies commercialized university projects. Therefore those students' university experience was state-of-the-art." Thanks for the historical excurse. Not ot be picky, but the original thread was not about startups. There are three nuances: a) The initial point was about how useless or useful are fresh graduates to _existing corporations_, therefore I was not talking about new startups based on some crazy ideas. For these three examples, how many other startups perished into oblivion? Can you draw any generalized conclusion about their "state of the art"? b) Lizzie forgot to quote the second part of my sentence, "anything of practical use for corporations, with exception of maybe few PhD-level research program that might fit into far perspective of the corporation, into very far, and far from immediate practical results." c) Third, are you sure that all 1982 graduates were taught classes on ICP/IP? True, those companies did commercialize some university projects. But it does not mean that the graduates were trained for the "state of the art". They were not. In fact, they even may be qualified as being "above the state of the art", but it makes them no more useful to existing employers, with their own legacy business and management history. Therefore, I maintain my point: all grad classes are still introductions, and are behind the immediate practical needs of current strategic developments in leading technological corporations. - Ali