Re:Hate to say, sounds like a dot-bomb strategy... (Score 1)

1. But companies need to be really big to sustain research. Assertion 1 is totally unsupported, and IMHO, wrong.

I support assertion 1 in the following cases:

1) basic research (particularly in the semiconductor area) You have to have a large bankroll to fund major semiconductor research in improving processes(as opposed to logic.

2) social research -> There is a serious financial disincentive to doing social research, but larger companies are forced by shareholders, political pressure, government contracts to be more socially conscious.

I don't have the inclination to do the research,but I'm willing to bet that if you took 10 major advances in computing in the last 10 years (your choice);they would have all but 1 or 2 come from large companies, universities or government labs. I think that the small companies that have been successful have been successful with creative business models more than revolutionary technology.