>Ad hominum remarks will not strengthen your point...

Whatever. You're the one posing ad hoc observation and folklore as engineering.

Here's another one for you: Don't you think it's a bit of a stretch to take a Boston Consulting Group concept for analyzing lines-of-business and applying it to picking technology?

Also, to refresh your MBA memory, the "rising stars" box is typically characterized by low barriers to entry, crowded with competitors, pioneering costs, technology risk and, as a result, below average profitability. So assuming for a moment that the simile applies to picking technology, then those are the realities that must also be accepted.


**--** Steve