Comments on: More tech executives join Obama transition team

President-elect Barack Obama is enlisting more veterans of the tech industry to help his transition team evaluate federal agencies.

[Mr. Dee]

His Administration is beginning to sound like 'Obamasoft' or 'Obama 2.0'. Wish him all the best.

[Commander_Spock]

Re: "[...Michael Warren, currently on partial leave from his role as chief operating officer of Stonebridge International, is a leader of the Treasury Department agency review team. He is also part of the working group overseeing international trade and economics agencies. Warren previously served as president of Appfluent Technologies, a data usage and query performance software provider. He is also chairman of Ironbridge Systems, which provides analytics and technical support services....]" If nothing else; Commander_Spock and Crew will (as it has been for the longest while) be focusing like a laser beam on the "economics" the "analytics" and "technical support services" and the emerging business opportunities presented. "Jobs-Baby-Jobs"!

[Commander_Spock]

OK folks, let Commander_Spock and Crew how you do an International Economic Forecast for the next Twenty-Five Years or so without dem "Computing Analytical Tools". Now, going back to the times of the Pharaohs... then this would be like making bricks without straw - Huh!

[Commander_Spock]

So, where in the world is that Obama's Team "Chief" Software/Information Technology (IT) Architect?

[The_Real_One]

The actual title of the article should read "More lobbyists and campaign bundlers join Obama". Just go to Opensecrets.org and do some searches on their names or companies. The first one listed, Stonebridge, is a lobbying firm.
Nothing new, fresh or changing here.

[RicABlair]

Gawd, geekiness rules!

[Len Bullard]

This gives me a squeamish feeling. It is as if the burglars of the economy were given license to promote burglary as a business, or the bootleggers were asked to run the liquor industry as a dry county goes wet. If we accelerate away from manufacturing at the rate we have been during the tech boom, the country will become Sun: flat on its back giving away the gold if you buy the purse.

[idfubar]

"Len Bullard" makes the classic luddite argument; shouldn't we also be advocating against smallpox vaccinations?

PS: Gold was trading for less than $300/oz. in 2002; it's a commodity stupid!