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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_40,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: atbowler@thinkage.on.ca (Alan Bowler) Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada? Date: 1997/04/25 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 237360210 Sender: news@thinkage.on.ca References: <5j31dt$o3j@huron.eel.ufl.edu> <5j8m42$c9v$1@darla.visi.com> <338a1835.439086993@news.pacificnet.net> Organization: Thinkage Ltd. Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-04-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <338a1835.439086993@news.pacificnet.net> Kevin@Quitt.net writes: > >Business people hear "computer" and think "IBM". It comes from the >mainframe days where IBMs machines, while much less capable than the >competition, and just as prone to break down, had a technician on-site 24 >hours a day, with two hours to escalate if the problem wasn't fixed. The >IBMs went done just as often, but they were up sooner. The IBM systems also required the customer have twice as many systems people to run the machine. So a shop with two equivalent powered machines had 2/3's of its employees tied to IBM skills. This "breeds experts" situation has occurred in a number of situations where a somewhat technically inferior product tramples its competition in the marketplace.