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From: sr@pyuxv.UUCP (S Radtke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,misc.invest,comp.ai
Subject: Re: Expert Systems Company Financing...
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Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 14:08:44 EDT
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Summary: success stories wanted
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In article <810@iscuva.ISCS.COM> randyg@iscuva.UUCP (Randy Gordon) writes:
>
>That really doesn't reflect on AI's success. There have been quite a number
>of wildly sucessful AI projects that I know of, but they are usually buried
>deep in companies that do other things, and noone talks about them, so
>they won't lose competitive advantage.

Come on, Randy, let's hear what the wildly successful AI projects were.
Most success stories I've heard had to be discounted considerably. They
tend to be stories about developments that are full of promise, rather
than systems that pay dividends or work for a living. The reports from
DEC about Xcon, for instance, did not include bottom line calculations
that include system development cost retrieval and maintenance cost, though
such support systems are part of the infrastructure and are hard to show as
profit centers.

Steve Radtke
pyuxv!sr