followup: there's a great expression "throw it over the fence", for how IBM researchers used to commercialize their research. Here's some tech, whatever, seeya.

followup: there's a great expression "throw it over the fence", for how IBM researchers used to commercialize their research. Here's some tech, whatever, seeya. (the fabled PARC labs seemed and microsoft research seems to be similar). An example of what happened is relational databases: invented at IBM, but commercialized by Oracle. You might say that Oracle is the baddie in this, but commercializing it here only made them money because they turned the tech into something people wanted. So, as far as benefiting the world goes, what they did was crucial. [according to Larry Ellison, the thing they did was make the nice theoretical idea fast enough, which nobody believed was possible - but what founders say is invariably - necessarily - part-PR, so I always take it with a grain of salt. I like a good story though.] This interview (transcript) gives an idea of the process of adaption (for Enterprise software) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1671852 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1671852 BTW if all this seems overwhelming, you only have to do one step at a time, then you have some feedback to give you 1. information, 2. confidence and 3. energy for the next step. Activity in itself - even if it fails - gets your blood moving, and that's helpful.