[Bioclusters] Journalist seeking sources

[bioclusters@bioinformatics.org]

My name is Sam Jaffe and I'm a reporter working on a story about the 
impact of companies like IBM and Sun entering into the bioinformatics 
field for The Scientist magazine (www.the-scientist.com). I spoke with 
J.W. Bizzaro and he recommended that I post a message on this forum. I'm 
interested in talking to people who work in the field about this issue. 
Are the big new entrants squeezing out the startups? Are they making 
massive hirings? Are the people that worked for the startups that are 
now going out of business going to work for the big guys? Are the big 
guys adding any real value to the systems in place? Are they pushing 
proprietary systems over open-source systems? Are they adding anything 
to the open-source programming efforts? Would you personally go to work 
for a Sun or an IBM? You don't have to answer all these questions, but 
I'd be grateful for any help on any of them. Please reply to my email 
directly (sam.jaffe@verizon.net), rather than replying to everyone. 
Thanks for your time and help.

Sam Jaffe
The Scientist Magazine
215 242 0383