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

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In article <26c7e$4ad7a6b4$cef8b7b8$15268 at TEKSAVVY.COM-Free>, "John Smith \(not the one @ HP\)" <a at nonymous.com> writes:
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>"seasoned_geek" <roland at logikalsolutions.com> wrote in message 
>news:5c431829-37b6-47a1-8b93-32e179e1b9a1 at f21g2000vbm.googlegroups.com...
>On Oct 14, 2:00 pm, "John Smith \(not the one @ HP\)"
><a... at nonymous.com> wrote:
>> http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://kerstein.org/dilbert/dil...
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>> same applies to the youngsters who promise the moon in 7 days and can't
>> deliver in 7 months of moons.
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>Youngsters???  Don't you mean every off-shore team?
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>Pretty much.
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>It always amazes me how management can convince themselves that the 
>off-shore team deliverd great value when more times than not the project is:
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>a) late,
>b) over budget,
>c) riddled with flaws,
>d) there is zero knowledge transfer,
>e) the code is poorly documented (worse than my uncommented APL),
>f) the business opportunity the code was meant to give the organization a 
>jump on the competition has evaporated,
>g) there is less than a 10% cost savings vs. developing in-house and 
>retaining the local institutional knowledge.

...but, but, but, it looks so damned impressive on that bean-counter ledger.

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