OLinuXino A20-Lime2 ?

Morgaine Dinova wrote:

Maybe Farnell has gotten too big, and employees now no longer care?

Possibly, but just as likely that SBC's are a tiny part of their overall business and that's why they don't get the resources.  They're certainly much more complicated to sell and support compared to reels of SMT resistors or whatever, so someone makes a business decision on what makes more sense.

Morgaine Dinova wrote:

 

Maybe Farnell has gotten too big,

and as someone who has a day job working for a company many times larger than farnell, I agree that getting too big is a problem. getting things done starts to require committee meetings and meetings to discuss the previous meeting etc..  That then leads to the possibility of the behemoth being too slow to react at times.

selsinork wrote:

 

They're certainly much more complicated to sell and support compared to reels of SMT resistors or whatever, so someone makes a business decision on what makes more sense.

The counter-argument to that though is that Farnell sell quite a number of SBCs, including earlier members of the OLinuXino range and BBB and SL and now MarS, so there's no sign of them optimizing for products that require less support.  And MarS is quite new, so there hasn't been a decision of that kind made only recently either.

Morgaine.

selsinork wrote:

 

and as someone who has a day job working for a company many times larger than farnell

Uh oh.

I'm just a minion    that's where things get problematic though, it's very difficult for normal workers to make a difference when everything requires sign-off five levels above my managers head

It's like a script from a bad episode of Star Trek, a whole planet gone insane with the clueless making the decisions and those who actually drive the technology of civilization forward having no say.  If I ever come across an Away Team shuttle, I'm out of here.

Morgaine.

PS. I also have a towel and my thumb ready in case other opportunities present themselves.  Vogon poetry is a calculated risk.

Morgaine Dinova wrote:

 

It's like a script from a bad episode of Star Trek, a whole planet gone insane with the clueless making the decisions and those who actually drive the technology of civilization forward having no say.  If I ever come across an Away Team shuttle, I'm out of here.

It's also like almost every Dilbert cartoon.  I couldn't stand reading Dilbert when I worked for a large organization because it hit too close to home.

Dilbert reflects the cluelessness at the top of the business ladder adequately, but it doesn't really convey the inversion of the pyramid, where "top" always means most unproductive and uninformed and being one of the most productive and informed inevitably means that you're at the "bottom".

It's a total failure of organization for quality, and by design it makes companies Mankind's worst systems.

Morgaine.

Morgaine Dinova wrote:

 

 

so there's no sign of them optimizing for products that require less support.

You expect the PHB to have a reason for the decision that makes sense ?

Oh you're right!

I'd forgotten that destruction of assets was the new management-approved form of "upgrade" now.

Morgaine.