I got a shock yesterday.
An interview with a "local" tech company turned out to be one with a company 3,000 miles away. Appcelerator CEO Jeff Hainey, a veteran Atlanta entrepreneur, told me straight-out he found himself getting more done in a single Mountain View afternoon than he could do in a month from Buckhead.
For me this was the last straw. I have spent nearly my entire journalism career covering Atlanta technology. The state has long claimed the most active tech-development operation in the nation, with an incubator called the ATDC, an active software trade group, and a host of VCs and angel investors, not to mention the "economic development engine" of Georgia Tech.
