There's some great stuff in here about selling new technology. And this: Also winning and loosing is often a purely temporary thing - often we won battles - bu

There's some great stuff in here about selling new technology. And this: Also winning and loosing is often a purely temporary thing - often we won battles - but it turned out badly. And lost battles which then turned out well. Erlang was banned years ago (a loss) but a few years on the ban caused it to spread and led to widespread use outside Ericsson.