[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[David Froble]

Paul Sture wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Aug 2012 22:10:44 +0000, ChrisQ wrote:
> 
>> On 08/09/12 20:05, Paul Sture wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I gather that is common practice with the large consultancies, though I
>>> haven't come across it myself.
>>>
>>>
>> Quite common in industry as well. The theory being chuck them in the
>> deep end and see what they are made of. It can be a good thing if you
>> are trying to build people, but may not be so good if it's a customer
>> facing role...
> 
> It's fine when they are a member of a team and have backup from their 
> base...
> 

My comment was about putting such a person to work for a customer, and charging 
the customer the rate for a senior person.  Now, even if on a team, the customer 
is NOT getting what he's paying for.  Even worse, any senior people on the team 
are not giving the customer what he's paying for, if they spend part of their 
time training a newbie.  If you want to have such on a team for learning 
purposes, Ok, but don't charge the customer for your training costs.