> Tech giants, including Amazon, Cisco, Google, IBM and Microsoft also have their eye on the industrial internet market, as do a bevy of start-ups.
This explains a lot of recent interest in IoT. Big companies like GE saw what happened to companies like Kodak and want to defend their profits. They could be entirely wrong, computing may not turn out add much value in these industries. But GE probably don't want to leave that to chance.
Industrial is a pretty staid, slow moving market. I'm out of it as soon as the movers get here. It's fantastic, thrilling work but you can't get the people in power to grok what you're doing.
It's sad and hard to do, but I've told a colleague who's trying to go into this market ( we were both laid off this year ) "no", because the overall culture isn't ready for it.
This explains a lot of recent interest in IoT. Big companies like GE saw what happened to companies like Kodak and want to defend their profits. They could be entirely wrong, computing may not turn out add much value in these industries. But GE probably don't want to leave that to chance.