[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[ChrisQ]

On 08/12/12 17:14, David Froble wrote:

>
> 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.

It may not be ethical, but the customer ends up paying the training costs
one way or another anyway. The more significant point is that the newbie
may provide advice which results in serious damage to the client business
and in some cases there may be safety issues as well.

That sort of thing always comes from the top though, from company policy or
general standards...

Regards,

Chris