On Thursday 07 December 2006 22:35, Alan Gauld wrote: > "Dave S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > They will be concerned about using my app because I am one person. > > What if I > > get hit by a bus ! what if I leave ? > > This is a common problem in big companies including my own. > For years they wouldn't even use the GNU software because it > was "unsupported". I even had to buy a commercial version of > emacs for about $300...
Ouch .... that must have hurt :( > > Eventually cygnus started offering support (for $5K per year) > and they allowed us to use emacs, gcc etc Eventually even > X windows. > Cool :) > Now they are more relaxed and we use Linux to run our > internal DHCP and DNS, even some web servers... > > > ...(It appears that none of the > > company's IT professionals can program !) > > That's also not unusual. In fact our company appears to be > slowly heading that way. We used to have 11,000 IT professionals > of which around 5000 were developers. Now we have 13,000 IT > professionals of whom about 1000 still write code. The coding > is mainly offshored to India and Eastern Europe. Our internal > people are being retrained on "higher value" roles like business > analysis, design/architecture, deployment/integration and > project management. So sad - programming is soooo much creative fun. I have heard it being called an art form - I would agree with that. > > So I now program in python as and when I can and call > it prototyping... > > They call it progress. > 'progress' ... mmm .... 'modern man management' ... (cynical mmm ...) > Alan G. > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
