In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/08/2007
at 06:41 AM, Charles Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>When a customer has hundreds of "not recently touched"
>business-critical programs, and no one who knows how they work, and
>no budget for conversion, and typical corporate tolerance for risk
>(i.e., near zero)
Whether they know it or not, they *are* tolerating a substantial risk
by not having anyone who knows how the program works.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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