Comments on: The Long Tail of The Olympics: Why Coming Last is no embarrassment http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2006/02/27/the-long-tail-of-the-olympics-why-coming-last-is-no-embarrassment/ An industry analyst blog looking at software ecosystems and convergence Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:35:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Adrian Trenholm http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/2006/02/27/the-long-tail-of-the-olympics-why-coming-last-is-no-embarrassment/comment-page-1/#comment-1242 Adrian Trenholm Thu, 02 Mar 2006 20:40:30 +0000 http://www.redmonk.com/jgovernor/wp/?p=522#comment-1242 The last cyclist on the Tour de France each day is called the "lanterne rouge" (the red light), and it is considered an honourable place to be. Generally the lanterne rouge is struggling (illness, injury, bad luck) but hangs on in there. He always gets an extra cheer for his persistence. I will leave you to make the tehcnology decision maker analogy. The last cyclist on the Tour de France each day is called the “lanterne rouge” (the red light), and it is considered an honourable place to be. Generally the lanterne rouge is struggling (illness, injury, bad luck) but hangs on in there. He always gets an extra cheer for his persistence.

I will leave you to make the tehcnology decision maker analogy.

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