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To: Bill Wexler who wrote (618)	4/22/1998 10:54:00 PM
From: Josef Svejk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1361

Humbly report, All, Capers Jones' bio: spr.com Svejk (GL-15 applies: digiserve.com ;-)

To: Bill Wexler who wrote (618)	4/25/1998 11:53:00 PM
From: David Eddy	Respond to of 1361

Bill - Mr. Jones seems to believe that a huge percentage of the world's computing resources over the next 50 years will be spent modifying date fields, zip codes, etc. It is embarrassingly clear that Mr. Jones does not understand modern computer software or hardware. And precisely what aspect of "modern" software/hardware does Mr Jones not understand? Precisely how is "modern" software different from "ancient" software? Read any of his his books on project statistics? Are you able to offer counter proof? FACT: I worked at a financial institution once (20 times bigger now) where they needed to add a single digit to their product code. They identified something like 1500 'places' where they had to make changes. In two passes, the project cost them a reported $34 million. That's one company working on a single piece of data. A friend in the same business said that eyeballing one of their record layouts immediately showed 10%+ of the fields in that single record to be obvious dates. - David