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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <paul.nospam-F6F5F5.16423916102009 at pbook.sture.ch>,
	"P. Sture" <paul.nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> 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?

Which is, as I have tried pointing out here and in other places in the
past also a major problem with GPLed software.

bill
 

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