Re: "The 10 biggest hype jobs of 2002"

["Steve Landess" <steve_landess@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Reminds me of what my manager, the president of the company, told me in 1988
when I requested permission to buy Synon for our system.  I told him that
with the Synon tool that our shop could produce significantly more code
without hiring any additional programmers. (shows how naive I was at the
time...)

He gave me a speech about "soft dollars" versus "hard dollars".

Buying Synon cost the company "hard dollars".  That is, $ 50,000 dollars out
the door...But he could make us work 16 hours a day at no additional cost to
get projects completed on time, at _no_ additional cost to the company.
This is what he called "soft dollars".

I quit and started my consulting firm soon after he made that statement.
(And after I spent 29 days in a row working 16 hours a day to get converted
off the S/38 to the AS/400 in October 1988 without any recognition or comp
time for my efforts)

Steve

----- Original Message -----
From: <HankHeath@aol.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 12:53 PM
Subject: "The 10 biggest hype jobs of 2002"


> --
> [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
> An article that appeared on C/Net (<A
HREF="http://news.com.com/2010-1071-978018.html?tag=fd_nc_1";>
> http://news.com.com/2010-1071-978018.html?tag=fd_nc_1</A>).
>
> My favorite quote:
>
> "I recently heard of an IT manager who told the CIO he wanted to buy a
> product because it could save the department $75,000. The CIO agreed, but
> only if the manager agreed to cut his budget by $75,000. Needless to say,
the
> manager decided to pass."
>
> - Hank Heath
>
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