Silicon Valley - The Geeks Are Back In Charge?

securitas writes "The New York Times' Steve Lohr reports on a fundamental shift taking place in Silicon Valley in the post-dotcom era: the geeks are back in charge. New start-ups and companies that survived the bubble 'are based on innovation and are run by people with deep technical skills.' These companies have real technology and a solid technical base that have historically been the bedrock of Silicon Valley - something that was temporarily forgotten during the dotcom bubble. Profiled companies include Tellme Networks (speech recognition), InterTrust (DRM - digital rights management), VMware (virtual machines) and Scalix (Linux e-mail servers)."

Is Carly going away?

[IM6100]

Does this mean Carly will move back in with her mother at the trailer park?

Will the good stuff get re-branded back to Hewlett-Packard and the bad product lines get sold to Dell?

A geek can dream, can't he?

Welcome to Silicon Valley !

[Anonymous Coward]

On behalf of the rest of us in Silicon Valley, I, for one, welcome the return of our hornrimmed pocket-protected overlords.

Re:Let's not forget ...

[Anonymous Coward]

Not to mention the terrific team at SteelDock Tech (www.steeldock.com) - they're awesome, a real pro-active synergy-driven group who think outside the box. I've met a few of them, and they're all team-players with the self motivation and drive necessary to push the envelope.

If you're interesting in buying some stock, let me know, I can cut you in with a good deal.

Re:Quattrone is out/Torvalds is in

[BrokenHalo]

Linus Torvalds... dressed in his customary T-shirt and sandals.

That's all? Too much information :-)

InterTrust?

[hanssprudel]

(Firstly, it's Digital Restrictions Management and nothing else - don't propogate the doublespeak.)

Can somebody who runs a company founded on the basis of closing off computers from their users, and making it impossible to hack them really be called a geek? This is a company that lauds and depends on the DMCA - which is the antithesis of everything that being a geek or a hacker means.

And besides, Intertrust makes software based DRM, which shows that they can't have any actual technical skills or they would know their product can be defenition not work. Except for the "let's get rid of the open PC platform all together" crowd (aka TCPA and Palladium), anybody selling DRM is selling snake oil. Apparently the NY Times got fooled.

The Article doesn't mention...

[Sophrosyne]

...companies like Intertrode, or ini-tech??
...hmm what is the world coming to?

Great to hear!

[RealBeanDip]

>>These companies have real technology and a solid technical base that have historically been the bedrock of Silicon Valley

Now all we all need is a business plan... Let's give away our product (we'll make it up in volume). We'll maximize our user-base communities and merge into an e-business to sell into vertical markets while maximizing our investment with our margin accounts.

All we need is an overpriced CEO, his favorite exec buddies, some groovy office space and expensive furniture.

Happy days are here again!