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"Daniel A. Morgan" <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message
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> aztek wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure where all this degree knocking came from - maybe the fact
that
> > in the US chances are given to people without a (completed) higher
> > education.
>
> To be perfectly honest, in the US, competence is not a requirement.
>
> And there are billions of dollars worth of over-budget and failed projects
to
> prove it.
I thought we were talking about technical positions. projects fail because of
and very very rarely because of technical incompetence. In other words technical projects normally fail for business reasons - though it is then much easier to blame the technology or the supplier than to say well actually the board didn't have a clue what we were doing or why.
-- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA Audit Commission UKReceived on Sun May 05 2002 - 02:08:10 CDT