Why Can’t Industry Fund IT Research?
It does: IBM (5.8%), Intel(13%), Lucent (12%), Microsoft(14.%), Sun (12%), ...
- R&D is ~5%-15% (50 B$ of 500 B$)
- AD is 10% of that (5 B$)
- Long-Range Research is 10% of that 500 M$ 2,500 researchers and university support
- Compaq: 4.8% R&D (1.3 B$ of 27.3 B$).AOL: 3.7% D, ?R (96 M$ of 2.6 B$)
- Dell:1.6% R&D (204 M$ of 12.6 B$), EDS, MCI-WorldCom, ….
To be competitive, some companies cannot make large long-term research investments.
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