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To: mitch-c who wrote (47438)	5/31/2001 12:12:48 AM
From: Pink Minion	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Your constant cheap shots at the employed remind me of a famous Churchill comeback. Well, I apologize if that's the impression. I worked my ass off my first 7 years at Nortel only to have half the projects cancelled by pointy hairs. And it wasn't the software's fault. I thought it was the company, but found out this was the average for IT projects. And then I started reading Dilbert comic strip and found out I was a complete idiot. I hope I never have to go back. The main reason I see the productivity gains these last 5 years is because of the Internet/HTML. It one, forced companies to move to a client-server computing architecture and two, anyone with a 4 grade education could put up a web site in a week. In the 80's that used to take 6 months for a team of 3 Dilberts and 4 managers to complete with a %50 success rate. (and yes, most projects I worked one had more managers than programmers). These productivity gains have been implemented and can't be realized again.