On 15 May 2007 08:02:21 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Jacobs) wrote: >But the lack of these benefits on the cheaper environments usually bites >you in the a** sometime in the future. But by then the people making >these decisions have walked away with their bonuses and leave the >fallout to the peons to handle.
One big problem with our big businesses (those so big that the individual stockholder doesn't have much control), is that bonuses are typically given for current profits, not long term profits. I'd like to see stock options given every year to the CEO - cashable a decade in the future. I'd give the same bonuses to GMs of sports teams, depending on team performance in the future. Athletes have to wait to join their Halls of Fame (except Vijay Singh). We don't know how good a company was run until we check the long run. It may be cheaper to buy computers that won't fit 5 years from now - when someone else is running the company. That would mean that gutting a company for current profits wouldn't pay, but investing wisely would. I'd also like to see that with politics, but politician's pay is power, and that cannot be deferred. But it is more important for a President's policy to work for the long term than for a CEO's policy. Neither should be measured by "not on my term", but both should be measured by leaving a legacy that lasts. Build for the future - when the other guys are running the company/country. That said, I don't know whether it might be better in the long term to design around a powerful mainframe now - or to throw out my new system before then and replace it with new technology and a new direction. I don't see that IBM is trying to sell us on either direction, maybe because it doesn't know either. My bias is to value the system that matches my current skills. I *like* big iron. But I need to disregard my bias and prepare for the reality that will come. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
