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To: Hardly B. Solipsist who wrote (11978)	9/30/1998 3:59:00 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) of 14631

Hardly <OT on this H1-B Visa issue>, Just to talk specifics, I will say this. For many years the primary programming language used inside (and outside) Oracle to develop the apps had no I/O and no debugging functionality at all (this is PL/SQL). I dont need to tell you technical types how long it takes to develop programs in a language with no I/O or debugger vs. one that does. If Oracle really needed to improve their productivity of the programmers they do have, they would have fixed their tools... put some bodies on the actual software development process which hasnt changed in 30 years. They never did that. Instead Oracle tried to hire more and more programmers to pump stuff out with a bad toolset. The point Im trying to make here is that the salaries of programming staff is low enough - currently - to support this kind of "throw bodies at it" mentality. So, I dont buy the Oracle claim that there are not enough workers (no matter what we are willing to pay) and we need to go overseas. Its shortsighted mgmt plain and simple.

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