Re: Developer XML with WDSC 6 Light ?

Aaron,

You're right about my time being billed by the hour, so maybe I can give 
that a try.

Then again, I pointed my project leader to the hopelessly outdated PC the 
first day I started here, and he said that upper management is very tight 
about hardware upgrades, except for the iSeries/AS400/...

Maybe next year's budget will include some pc hardware for us lowly 
people.

But I'm not holding my breath: most developers here (=everybody except me) 
use SEU exclusively, and their pc's are fast enought, so why would they 
invest in hardware for an external contractor who stubbornly insists on 
using that flashy WebSphere gizmo...

Get the drift?

Peter Colpaert
Application Developer
PLI - IT - Kontich, Belgium
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Peter, for your situation being a contracted developer I would simply put
some ROI behind it.  Your time is very calculated so that makes it all the
easier as I am guessing you bill out by the hour.  A few years back when I
worked in a dept that wasn't so savvy on keeping pc hardware up to date, 
and
I needed a faster PC.  But being that I knew I would get challenged for 
even
asking I first started counting all the seconds/minutes it took to do
everything on my very sssllooOOOooww PC.  I did that for a week and then
went to my manager and gave a projection of how much time I was going to 
be
wasting in the next year by having to reboot twice a day, wait for
applications to start up, wait for applications to respond, etc.  When it
was all said and done the ROI was all laid out, and guess what... I got a
new PC :-)

I know every IT environment is different though and you may be fighting a
completely different corporate personality than I was, so good luck!

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com