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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