It really highlights the old-world vs. new you see between the two parties.
That's a bit much. Somebody made the right call infrastructure-wise and somebody made the wrong one. That's it.
If anything, Republicans are more "new-world" regarding tech policy in general, ie copyright/intellectual property.
yes, someone made the wrong call infrastructure wise, but you have to ask: why did they make this call? It's because, in their world, this is how you do it.
The Dems were more open to a different type of campaign that brought tech in house etc.
Writing it off as an infrastructure choice with no relation to how they think is disingenuous.
Isn't Obama the establishment now? I think he's a Democrat.
> the old white guys
Most Republicans aren't old. Some are white, but not all. I'm not. Some aren't even guys ...
If I said something similar about Democrats, like how they're all black or something equally moronic and false ... you'd be jumping up and down, calling me a racist.
> The Dems were more open to a different type of campaign that brought tech in house etc.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hcoyG-Ck3...
I think you understand what I'm talking about.
Re the old white comment, look at the demographics: that was the only demographic republicans won. If you said democrats were just a bunch of black guys, then yes I would be offended. If you said the truth, that democrats were a coalition of young people, single women, and minorities, I would not. I'm a white male, and voted for Obama, so I understand that it is a generalization.
That link is irrelevant, I don't care if Obama doesn't like Xboxs and iphones, doesn't mean his campaign wasn't technologically proficient: whose campaign's tech broke down on election day and outsourced their development to contractors? Romney.
Who had a dedicated team of coders in house and everything worked well? Obama. Most startup guys will tell you that outsourcing their main product never ends well.
Comparing the two's info sys I can't help but draw a lot of similarities between old vs new, "enterprise"/top down/"consultant shops" vs agile/developer driven, monolithic up front vs bit by bit iterative.
I was going to make that observation over on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4842510 but didn't as it was a generalization and based on reading two articles (that one and the Orca debacle one). Despite that there's truth behind it and this articles puts some numbers behind that truth.