It once was, to me, the ideal of computers, merging of hardware and software til the whole became greater than the sum of it's parts.
But then I got into the back-side, saw the backstabbing and fighting. I saw good solutions blasted because of the "not-done-here" mentality of some. I saw a wholescale abandonment of the hardware, citing it as commodity and irrelevent. Then it became a bucket of broken promise, ruined plans and quixotic quests...
