Hmmm.

Reminds me of a company I worked for; two groups who could not talk. One
group (mine) was spending a pot of money (about a million bucks, 1980s
money) to keep an old computing system going, the other wanted to spend
that same pot of money on the next generation of computers.

I asked for, and got a desk in Group II's building; right in the midst of
Group II. First question I got asked by a very nervous Group II was "what
the h*ll are you doing here?"

My answer was "Group 1 is trying to keep the engineers delivering code to
keep the lights on, and you are trying to progress the tools so that things
work better in the future".

Put that way, Group II realized that, "hey, that makes sense - we can't
stop production for a year", and my old group knew that the old way was
increasingly not really cutting it, but we had to keep the lights on...
Within ONE DAY the conflict was over, and we all worked towards a common
goal.

Maybe not relevant, but there are a lot of really smart people here,
working away to make better environments, and each and every one has
something to contribute to the success of the code base.

Off to cook dinner - JohnS.

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