qlt...everyone...Plextronics. ~ Well, I just spent the past 3 hours digging into Plextronics bones, ie. current technological boasts and future technological plans. It would be impossible to take my overflowing jumbled gray matter and transfer it to my keyboard so I'll sum up my observations in simple terms. Take it or leave it. : ) (besides, I'm not intelligent enough to explain it)
1) I'm not concerned with this company interfering in the success of ITKG. Not one iota of anxiety and no chance of pulling out my money from ITKG.
2) Good things about Plextronics: Smart guys. Very credible financial backers. Powerful Board. Great technological innovations and applications. Awesome business skills due to talented, knowledgeable people carving their path/business plan. Good for them. ITKG could learn a thing or two....(but are still not threatened re the big picture here...). Plextronics applications (at their current stage of development) will certainly be the catalyst for a technological revolution in the direction that they are going and the applications they have invented.
3) However.... from what I can gather, the US Military has just decided to pay for the RESEARCH to try to get the scientists at Plextronics to ATTEMPT to come up with what ITKG has already developed. Yup, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it. As unbelievable as it sounds, ITKG simply screwed up the schmoozing part with the Military. Plextronics got their attention by having an initial technology (not anywhere near as advanced as ITKG) that got them all excited and interested in these brainiacs. Add to that the fact that Plextronics' current new technologies could be very useful to the military today, and actually implemented in the near future . (however, these are much less impressive applications versus Plextronics' ultimate goal ~ meaning: what ITKG has already accomplished).
4) I would put money on the idea that the scientists at Plextronics would give anything to get into the labs over at ITKG. Ahhhh......sorry Charlie. : )
5) If we've lost the opportunity to get the US Military because of their investment in Plextronics so be it. Think bigger. There is still the medical industry, the communications industry (endless branches of that), the airline industry, etc. etc, etc. And, who knows? Perhaps someone in the Military will wake up one day and discover that what they just spent millions on already exists and subsequently try to hit the brakes. : ) (ie. beg ITKG for forgiveness...lol... and invite them to dinner to make a deal). Hopefully our boys will know which fork to use and how to dress.
p.s. Never underestimate the power of a good golf game and the level of ignorance at the helm of the client.
