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

[P. Sture]

In article <26c7e$4ad7a6b4$cef8b7b8$15268 at TEKSAVVY.COM-Free>,
 "John Smith \(not the one @ HP\)" <a at nonymous.com> wrote:

> "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...
> >
> > same applies to the youngsters who promise the moon in 7 days and can't
> > deliver in 7 months of moons.
> 
> Youngsters???  Don't you mean every off-shore team?
> 
> Pretty much.
> 
> 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:
> 
> 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.

f) is pretty high on my list of potential drawbacks.

Maybe an h) there.  If you buy COTS software aren't you automatically 
depriving yourself of creating a business advantage over the competition?

-- 
Paul Sture