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Technology Stocks : CSGI ...READY FOR TAKE-OFF! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: angel who wrote (1751)	12/28/1997 12:22:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3391

Angel - I wonder if Tech has used the CSGI tool? I wonder if Tech even knows how to program? I have never seen Tech [please, no offense is intended, tech] say anything that leads me to believe that he's actually written any code... or more importantly, had to maintain someone else's code. One of the problems (opportunities) with software is that good spin doctors (errrr... public relations professionals) can easily make a $2.50 garden trowel sound like a 'better' tool than a $500,000 bulldozer... all without ever directly addressing the nature & size of the problem being confronted. Particularly within the Y2K/software domain, the problem of describing dimensions is exceedingly difficult, because there simply are no commonly accepted weights & measures. I was a professional programmer for 18 years & believe me, I NEVER measured my productive output in LoC (lines of code). The unfortunate fact is that I was never called upon to know what my output was!!! When I came to lust after more knowledge & automation to help my throughput, what I encountered was extreme indifference by management. Bottom line... very difficult problem to consistently measure software. Let's not have hubris obscure the fact that software is a very new craft... on balance we really don't know much about it. Check out Capers Jones [http://www.spr.com] and his many books if you want substantive information. - David