Re: Colorimeters and third-party developer support (Tom Lianza)
Re: Colorimeters and third-party developer support (Tom Lianza)
- Subject: Re: Colorimeters and third-party developer support (Tom Lianza)
- From: Tom Lianza <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2011 07:16:42 -0400
- Thread-topic: Colorimeters and third-party developer support (Tom Lianza)
Hi to all,
The DreamColor display and program was probably a victim of the turf wars
inside of HP at the time it kicked off. Big promises were made by
management, they got canned and the workers were left holding this huge
political hot potato. For me, it was a tremendous learning experience in
how development programs could get so complicated so quickly and how they
could get undermined easily by shifts in management priorities and managers.
Those of you that are interested in the business aspects of technology might
want to read this article in Forbes magazine:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2011/08/17/why-amazon-cant-make-a-k
indle-in-the-usa/
The program manager of this project and the system integrator were both
heroic and dogged in their devotion to the project, but they were dealing
with too many vendors, delusional management, and no one really had a final
"say" in the system design. The firmware was (and is) especially fragile.
The USB interface was designed by another vendor and it was dog slow and it
didn't have a physical handshake with the I2C bus so the communication
protocol was especially complex. I tried to write a hardware abstraction
layer to mask all of this from developers. The guys at Dreamworks were
pushing for an open source solution and they built their own solution. Once
that decision got made, HP lost all control of the project. Read steve
dennings publications and you will have a much better understanding of why
innovation is so hard and fails so often in today's environment.
Regards
Tom
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