Roman Black wrote:

>Olin Lathrop wrote:
>>
>> I think the real solution is to
>> migrate to different light emitting technologies, which is=
 already
>> happening.  I think we'll see some interesting changes over=
 the next 10
>> years.
>
>
>With this I agree wholeheartedly. It will be a huge
>shakeup to the "evil empire" light bulb manufacturers
>when led lights come on to the market that last for
>10 to 20 years. And use a lot less power per lumen.
>How will they possibly cope? End of an era.
>-Roman

If the "evil empire" is smart, they'll already have LED lights=
 designed and be
ready to sell LED lights in volume at a significantly lower cost=
 than the
"little guys". However, history has seemed to show that the "evil=
 empires" will
drag out the current technology until every last penny of profits=
 has been
extracted from the consumer (regardless of the consumer's desire=
 for a better
product). There are a few exceptions to this, but for the most=
 part it's the
common operating philosophy for large corporations. They don't=
 adapt to change
very well as they are slow and inefficient to make such changes.

Matt Pobursky
Maximum Performance Systems

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