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From: Richard Riehle <laoXhai@ix.netcom.com>
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John Magness wrote:

>
> But consider what a blessing Windows is to the world economy!
> Think of all the jobs created due to the requirement to continuously
> maintain all that wretched MS software.  The pager industry alone would
> be half its  present size with out the demand for on call MS
> administrators!
> John

Reminds me of the "good old days" when we needed to hire a battalion of
systems programmers
to keep an IBM OS, DOS, or other IBM mainframe system operational from one
day to the next.

Richard Riehle
AdaWorks Software Engineering
http://www.adaworks.com