Yes, but...

Nokia started out as a paper mill company. They expanded into electricity generation and merged with a rubber galoshes manufacturer.

The obvious infrastructure for a multinational telecommunications company.

I imagine, at multiple junctures in their corporate history, someone had a pretty good reason for not doing something different. They probably had SWOT analysis and market research indicating the problems associated with expansion or alternate thinking.

Racing has plenty of reasons for not changing anything.

All parties remain entrenched in the way things have always been done and people just don't change the way they drive home from work. It's just not done.

Seth Godin, in a recent post, vents at 'everyone'. Everyone that says things are they way they are and they cannot change. Everyone in racing is what is wrong with the game.

Flowing Data links to a few sites willing to search for data, for a fee. Seems like a good opportunity for someone to pay for a search of all PP's for all horses running in the last few years and start an open source site for race horse PP's.

A mechanism must exist for making PP's free. Once the database is generated, the trick rests in maintaining it. Google must have a thing in Beta where they can generate running lines with a laser pointer or something. A camera with points of call Google mapped into it and a stopwatch. I mean the solution can't be all that hard.

I think the control of PP's is why racing is so resistant to embedding horses with those RFID tags. It would then just be too easy to make your own running lines and compete with Equibase.

I also think the guy who feeds the Loch Ness monster had Kennedy taken out and kidnapped the Lindbergh baby.

Reasons abound for not doing anything. It proves easy to say no. Everyone has reasons.

Not everyone wrote King Lear. Not everyone gets to pilot the VSS Enterprise.