Re: 1993 Software Engineering Symposium

[cis.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura .net!source.asset.com!vand@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Laurence VanDolsen)]

In article <SRCTRAN.93May28232652@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory
 Aharonian) writes:
>
>>The SEI will host its annual Software Engineering Symposium
>>
>>       Software Engineering Symposium 1993
>>      The Business of Software Engineering:  
>>                The Competitive Edge
>
>    Excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me, but when is it the role of an organization
>that has never had to earn a dollar in the business world, to host any
>symposium that involves business and competition?   For those of us
>struggling to earn a $100 here or there with own money, without having
>a big trough of tax dollars to live off of, it is insulting for SEI
>to be offering this symposium, unless they retitled it:
>
>       How to have a competitive edge using tons of taxpayers dollars.
>
>Geesh, they still haven't apologized for the business nonsense they
>contributed to the Mosemann studies of Ada and C++.  If you go, watch
>your wallets closely.
>
>Greg Aharonian

1.  The 'trough', as you like to call it, is small enough and desirable
enough that it is competed for.  Those who eat often and well have
developed a competitive edge.

2.  Even DoD business is business.