[sdiy] ot: is it true that Waldorf crashed?

[dave]

The use of software in mobile phones has come to my attention recently when
I saw two friends phones crash on them , I laughed of course.... and what
did they do........ reboot of course. I also witnessed a very expensive
prototype high density digital camera made by Arri (they make 35 mm movie
cameras) running on a flashy custom hardware keyboard trackball looky thing
, crash in the middle of a shoot ..... low and behold it was running on
windows 2000! Crazy stuff...... most of our cash machines run on win NT ....
its scary really.

very off topic
dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Maddox" <P.Maddox at signal.qinetiq.com>
To: "Synth DIY" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] ot: is it true that Waldorf crashed?


> Grant,
>
> > In the millions of US$. It was the Q that killed them.
>
> IMHO, the AFB16 did it...
>
> > When they went to purely digital instruments, the software development
> > costs, couple with the uncertainty of a software oriented methodology,
> over
> > extended the whole company.
>
> over extended?
> what from 5 people to 6?
>
> I think the other thing that killed them was that they never ever really
> 'finished' anything..
> People will only put up with that kinda trick for so long..
>
> As for the software argument, sorry, Microsoft continue to grow,
> Access-music continue to grow, VSTi's are getting more popular, Steinberg
> are growing and so on...
> Most mobile phones rely heavily on software, and you can't say that area
of
> business is in decline!
>
> So, Sorry I hate to disagree with you, but I do on this point.
>
> Paul Maddox
>