For too long, those horses depended, like Blanche DuBois, on the kindness of strangers: strangers to bail them out of kill pens, strangers towrite checks to organizations like the Akindale Thoroughbred Rescue, the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation, Old Friends, CANTER, and ReRun, strangers to find an extra stall on their farms to take in a horse that nobody wants any more.
With the woes of the financial sector grabbing headlines, technology companies could opt to write-off bad acquisitions now, kill ill-conceived product lines or lay off unneeded workers.