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To: tech who wrote (3326)	11/18/1997 12:24:00 PM
From: deltarider	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 10786

Wanted to offer a response to your "conclusions" before you get too sure of yourself. 1. Good point you make there. (almost sounds like management did the right thing!<gg>) 2. and 5. You continue to point out the # of employees/cost/revenue per employee, ad naseum. Look at it this way instead: Each team consists of a maximum of 5 people. Assume there are 2 non-tech people per 1 "team member". Each team is capable of converting 1MM LOC/month = 12MM LOC/year. Assume an average of $0.40 per line. So, when code flow problems are sovled (well underway), this will turn out to be $80,000 in revenue per employee per quarter. The point is, that although ALYD may be more labor intensive than your darling CSGI, they still have a proven automated solution. They are currently sitting on a production vehicle whose expenses do not increase at nearly the same rate as revenues can increase. This could be viewed as LEVERAGE, and can take them from losing money to profitability very quickly. 3. and 4. To imply that lesser skilled "team members", who have nothing to do with the on-site bundling effort, will affect the bundling process is ignorant. ALYD has a proven automated solution which requires some human interaction, mainly for quality control. It is also user friendly enough not to require "tech" levels of genius to operate. So . . . why pay for it? BTW, there is NO such thing as a TOTALLY automated solution. Even CSGI's solution requires some interaction. To be TOTALLY automated, a program would almost have to read the mind of the programmer who wrote it . . . true? Before addressing these issues again, talk to the y2k managers at DuPont, 3M, etc. Talk to the people who oversee the direct competition of these different tools. Do your homework! As I asked of you over a hundred posts ago, if you would use your analysis skills/intellect to answer your own questions, you'd get a lot farther toward finding the truth. ( . . . and God knows, you'd catch a lot less hell along the way!) Thanks in advance for the "playful" banter. Good Luck! thump9