Once, Nortel Networks was a $100 billion telecommunications giant and could have bought Cisco for $20 billion. It was too late for Cisco when they realized they were awfully behind in IP networking race. So they bought Bay Networks for $4 billion. It didn't work and soon after, the company of 96,000 people dropped to 30,000 in a few months, and then silently disappeared from the history.
It was one of the most intelligent ( and rare) decision the government took.
Off course, there are parties loosing money like car manufacturers and oil producers.
I should try this. Actually I'm interesred in much tiny versions of this for ultra narrower domains, like ordering dialogs in a coffeshop, and off course, having it on a corresponding tiny HW. Is there any development to this direction?
Nice. Could you please add also the postal costs to the sort?
My very first trial showed me a 38$ PC with 500$ postal cost. I'm located in Europe, but still ???