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Re: About LMT's -- nice article

From: Joel Garry <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: 20 Feb 2003 13:45:34 -0800
Message-ID: <91884734.0302201345.3cb60651@posting.google.com>


Noons <nsouto_at_optusnet.com.au.nospam> wrote in message news:<Xns9328D1D194C7Tokenthis_at_210.49.20.254>...
> Following up on Joel Garry, 20 Feb 2003:
>
> >
> > And I know of thousands of sites that use packages that are
> > rule-based...
>
>
> LOL! Gonna be fun to see them go to 10i.... :D

More likely they will go to the evil empire, where all those twentysomethings
really want to be. Larry won't even notice until the precipitous drop in support revenues overshadows 10i gains. Then he'll probably restructure the sales team.

>
>
> >
> > Now, why you would assume anyone who's been through several cycles of
> > upgrades would be stuck with the way things "used to be" is beyond me.
>
>
> Precisely.

As one job-finding-advice article put it, no one wants to hear in an interview that something didn't work when you tried it 20 years ago and it won't work now. So we are perhaps stuck with the tyranny of youth for the forseeable future. Fortunately I decided long ago to not compete with kids with peecees. What makes me scratch my head is I thought Daniel was older than me... :-)

jg

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