[Info-vax] EDS and HP hard to tell the difference

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <hamo86$v13$02$1 at news.t-online.com>,
> 	Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> writes:
>> JF Mezei schrieb:
>>
>>> But in the last decade, fewer and fewer types of enterprises could have
>>> "money is no object, quality and reliability is a MUST" mentality and
>>> more and more are into cost savings mode.
>> And the sad thing is, that even customers accept lower quality
>> services, if they are only cheaper.
>> Most people have no problems with lousy products
>> stealing their time, but think that buying better products
>> would steal their money.
>>
>>> And in cost savings mode, a company looks at its young "can do" workers
>>> who promise to deliver the world in 7 days and find it hard to justify
>>> keeping the older more realistic people who say that delivering the
>>> world will take mucgh longer and cost more.
>> And at some point high tech workers deserve what they get.
>> I hear consistently that they refuse to join or organize themselves
>> in unions, which might help them to defend their rights,
>> just as it did for the factory workers a century ago.
>> "We need no stinkin' unions here, we're so smart, we can
>> care for ourselves".
>> I think, this mindset ain't gonna work anymore for them.
> 
> Oh yeah, organize into unions.  That's gonna stop the rapid off-shoring
> of IT jobs.
> 

I doubt that it would work!  Most programmers are on salary and I'm not 
sure that they CAN unionize.  Just about anybody can learn to push a 
wheelbarrow or swing a hammer but programming usually needs both 
education and practice.  Even people with high intelligence and a 
college degree may not be able to write a working program let alone a 
GOOD one.