On 19 Sep 2005 10:49:03 -0700, "WM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>I think you're on the right track, John. I've got a kind of
>half-developed theory that staff that grew up in the mainframe era,
>where computing resources were extremely expensive and data centers
>were, actually, awesome, take their work seriously.

Some of us remember when the mainframes were put in the basement
because nobody understood what these expensive accounting machines had
to do with management.   It was a different type of ghetto.

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