>That's the bean-counter mindset that ruins companies. I was laid off from a semiconductor company years ago because the product we were supporting was aging,

>That's the bean-counter mindset that ruins companies. I was laid off from a semiconductor company years ago because the product we were supporting was aging, and their projections for the successor product did not show a 40+% profit margin, so they decided to simply exit the market altogether and dump their customers, who were really pissed.