Good answer, John!
Same with me, deceniums agao, at GEISCO (General Electric Information
Services).
But you do *never know* what the future does bring ...
** unless you actively do try to INFLUENCE it (the future of human
beeings) **
Watch me at Thomas.Schneider.Wien, at FaceBook, Skype, etc...
Then you will know ;-)
Thomas Schneider.
PS: AND: I will definitely need help from many, many individual humans :-)
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Am 27.12.2011 19:53, schrieb John Cowan:
Rick Moen scripsit:
MySQL AB's sales staff is reputed to have made claims to customers
that were insupportable. (Whether that thus constitutes a licensing
strategy I would not know, but I'm generally not quite that cynical.)
Maybe not, but lying to your customers is definitely a *business*
strategy. Whether or not MySQL AB employed it, my first employer
certainly did. Their salesmen were told to say the software could do
anything the customer asked for, and the programmers (including me) had
the job of cashing out these promises, however extravagant.
I eventually got sick of this and left, whereupon some enterprising
person issued a post-final paycheck in my name and forged my signature
to it. Shortly after, the company collapsed. Four equally bogus
companies later, the principals finally found themselves under arrest.
Which is mostly just a case in point about why a businessman who talks
directly to salesman and believes what they say without investigation
has a fool for a negotiator.
*shrug* Unbiased advice is always hard to come by.
--
Thomas Schneider (Founder of www.thsitc.com) Member of the Rexx Languge
Asscociation (www.rexxla.org) Member of the NetRexx Developer's Team
(www.netrexx.org)
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