2/15/2002 2:55:57 PM, "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <> wrote:
>A bad song that sells
>platinum stays around longer than a good one
>that sells a thousand copies to friends and relatives.
I can't point to specific examples in pop music
(my musical tastes hit the wall at about
1827) but I seem to recall tales of phenomenally popular
acts that are hyped to the stratosphere, yet their
CDs *stay* on the loading docks if the hype diverges
from the reality of public taste. There's no doubt
that the "SOAP-RPC as the grand unification of DCOM and
CORBA" paradigm looks like a monster hit from the early
orders, but it has to actually WORK in order to stay
on the charts.
