Osborne effect

"Osborne effect"

Adam Osborne

Not many have heard of this term in recent times but was a reasonably well known term during the 80s and probably even early 90s.

The term refers to the practice of  pre-announcing products before their availability. The rationale for such an announcement is to build expectations from existing and future customers that will ensure steady sales as the previous version of the product is abandoned. The downside of this strategy is that lot of times the announcement itself could cannibalize the sales of the existing product line.  

The term "Osborne effect" should not be confused with "Vaporware" which became popular in the 90s especially from that Redmond company and refers to the phenomenon of giving the impression that a product will soon be shipped based on a Demo or prototype of the product itself. 

Anyway, Osborne effect is named after Adam Osborne the american entrepreneur,engineer and 

I recently came upon the significance of the number 432, 000 in Hindu mythology and astrology. 432, 000 is the number of years that constitutes our current epoch or yuga we are currently living in.

How did it happen ? Well ,  Its not because I am considering monastic pursuits in Hindu theology but I landed on it at the end of a search trail for information on the Mayan prophecy on the impending end of the world on December 21 2012.

After having read up on the background of the mayan prophecy I trying to look for links between the mayan calendar and the hindu calendar to see if there were any connections that could substantiate the apocalyptic predictions.  It turns out that the connection is really numerical in nature and hinges on the number 9.
Now number 9 has significance in lots of ancient civilizations.  Nine is the total number of planets or 'grahas' in indian mythology.