From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, LOTS_OF_MONEY,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d89b08801f2aacae X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-01 07:39:47 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CCFFE11.F0CBE6FE@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is strong typing worth the cost? References: <4519e058.0204290722.2189008@posting.google.com> <3CCE8523.6F2E721C@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 09:39:13 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1020263986 151.168.144.162 (Wed, 01 May 2002 09:39:46 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 09:39:46 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23342 Date: 2002-05-01T09:39:13-05:00 List-Id: > There have even been some economic studies at Harvard that indicate that > computerization does not benefit a company. Dollars in to purchase PC's, > etc., for a company do not necessarily translate into dollars out in > profits. It's awfully hard to control all the variables. For example, there's a big difference between a year of 100 cheap Pentiums $50,000 | 100 better Pentiums $65,000 100 copies of Windows $10,000 | 100 copies of Linux $ 50 40 hours/week admin* $30,000 | 5 hours/week admin** $ 4,000 *cleaning up crashes and viruses and resolving incompatibilities **these people are _really_ thorough -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau