Does your pointy haired manager realise how long you spend looking at
the comparison of benefits between software developers and dentists?
Just kidding, I found your comments quite amusing! I do see your point.
Well put!
Glenn
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From: Martin Paulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 4:57 PM
Subject: RE: [DUG]: d6 - pricing, mutter...
> Never having been a dentist I could be wrong, but:
>
> A dentist:
>
> Doesn't have to spend 6 months learning how the new chair he has just
bought
> works before he is really effective.
>
> Doesn't have to persuade pointy haired managers that a chair is a
vital part
> of the job.
>
> Doesn't have free chairs of an intangible lesser quality available for
his
> use.
>
> Generally works for himself and has the profit go into his pocket -
not to
> shareholders.
>
> Doesn't generally have to deal with customers who refuse to get into a
> particular make of chair because of religious feelings.
>
> Doesn't have to regularly bolt incompatible fittings from another
chair
> maker onto his primary chair.
>
> Knows that even if his chair maker goes bankrupt the chair is good for
a few
> decades of hard use.
>
> Knows that if his chair fails to perform and electrocutes a customer
> fiddling with it's controls, the chair manufacturer will be held
liable.
>
> ...
> The list goes on and on.
>
> I think that a dentists chair is a bad analogy.
>
> Martin
>
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Glenn Bull [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 9 May 2001 4:09 p.m.
> > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi
> > Subject: Re: [DUG]: d6 - pricing, mutter...
> >
> >
> > If you were a Dentist you would pay around $120,000 (from memory)
for
> > one of those cool robotic chairs. Without one... well put it
> > this way, I
> > think we would all agree that the robotic chairs are the only fun
part
> > about going to a dentist. If you compare the price of development
> > software, and consider the profit you will make by using it, I think
> > most would have to say in comparison it is a very reasonable
> > industry to
> > be in. Sure a dentist doesn't need to upgrade his chair every
> > 18 months,
> > but the chair is only a very small part of his work tools.
> >
> > Don't get me wrong, I love getting a bargain but I also realise the
> > revenue that a investment such as the latest development
> > tools can pull.
> > And then of course there is the fact that you don't have to upgrade
if
> > there is no benefit to you in doing so.
> >
> > Just my 2 cents.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Glenn Bull
> > Hand Multimedia
> > New Zealand
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