From: "John R. Strohm" <strohm@airmail.net>
Subject: Re: advantages or disadvantages of ADA over pascal or modula
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 15:12:51 -0600
Date: 2003-01-20T15:12:51-06:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F26D0D318DF028DF.467B41AC66B0DBD9.565E13528B101545@lp.airnews.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b0gjd8$1oq$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de
Yes, it does, for ongoing concerns (i.e., out of the garage and in real
offices, with staff).
If you have access to a good business database, do some searching. In the
United States, you will find that a healthy engineering-related business
typically has sales on the order of $300,000 per employee. This number is
remarkably constant against size of the organization, and is a very
effective way of measuring the health of the organization.
When I noticed this, I started paying attention. I ran into a couple of
apparently-large companies with significantly lower sales per employee.
Upon investigation, it turned out that their U.S. organization was
essentially a very small sales office, and the bulk of the firm was located
in India, where costs are MUCH lower. I also ran into a couple such that
were U.S. firms, that were in financial trouble, but had enough stored
dollars to keep going until things turned around.
"Georg Bauhaus" <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de> wrote in message
news:b0gjd8$1oq$1@a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de...
> John R. Strohm <strohm@airmail.net> wrote:
> : In the United States, with all overhead considered, a good engineer
costs
> : his employer on the rough order of $250,000 per year. I would be very
> : surprised if the price was that much different in Germany.
>
> Does that include the very small shops?
>
> Would you be even more surprised to hear that the prices in Germany
> go up as you move down from North to South? Let alone Switzerland,
> where most Germans will find shocking figures on the bill of fare.
>
> Also, the "suing culture" reported from the USA is not really present
> here.
>
> -- Georg
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2003-01-03 15:57 advantages or disadvantages of ADA over pascal or modula karl bowl
2003-01-04 2:36 ` Adrian Knoth
2003-01-04 23:12 ` Robert C. Leif
2003-01-05 2:56 ` Ted Dennison
2003-01-05 3:54 ` John R. Strohm
2003-01-06 5:55 ` AG
2003-01-05 9:38 ` John R. Strohm
2003-01-06 1:37 ` advantages or disadvantages of ADA over pascal or modula or oberon was " Robert C. Leif
2003-01-04 2:56 ` Steve
2003-01-04 11:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-04 17:35 ` Steve
2003-01-04 22:16 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-01-05 14:12 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-04 12:17 ` Gautier
2003-01-04 17:12 ` Alfred Hilscher
2003-01-04 18:16 ` Ted Dennison
2003-01-05 11:47 ` karl bowl
2003-01-05 18:53 ` Alfred Hilscher
2003-01-05 20:38 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-01-05 21:03 ` Alfred Hilscher
2003-01-05 21:20 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-01-05 21:31 ` Alfred Hilscher
2003-01-05 21:47 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-01-06 14:43 ` Gautier
2003-01-06 16:21 ` Alfred Hilscher
2003-01-05 22:57 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-01-06 21:57 ` karl bowl
2003-01-18 14:14 ` Alfred Hilscher
2003-01-18 15:26 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-01-19 18:10 ` Alfred Hilscher
2003-01-19 23:42 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-01-21 19:16 ` Robert A Duff
2003-01-18 21:39 ` John R. Strohm
2003-01-18 21:56 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-01-18 23:08 ` Larry Kilgallen
2003-01-18 23:16 ` John R. Strohm
2003-01-19 3:36 ` Hyman Rosen
2003-01-19 4:47 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-01-19 5:47 ` John R. Strohm
2003-01-19 5:50 ` Steve
2003-01-19 4:47 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-01-19 5:51 ` John R. Strohm
2003-01-19 12:51 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2003-01-19 16:43 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-19 23:26 ` John R. Strohm
2003-01-21 13:45 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-19 6:10 ` Kevin Cline
2003-01-19 18:03 ` Bernd Specht
2003-01-19 16:31 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-19 12:17 ` Engineers Pay Alan and Carmel Brain
2003-01-21 7:12 ` Kevin Cline
2003-01-21 9:14 ` John R. Strohm
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2003-01-22 4:11 ` John R. Strohm
2003-01-22 17:56 ` John R. Strohm
2003-01-19 16:19 ` advantages or disadvantages of ADA over pascal or modula Marin David Condic
2003-01-19 19:08 ` Robert C. Leif
2003-01-19 20:26 ` Dale Stanbrough
2003-01-20 8:22 ` Tor Fredrik Aas
2003-01-21 14:00 ` Marin David Condic
2003-01-19 18:22 ` Alfred Hilscher
2003-01-20 10:35 ` Georg Bauhaus
2003-01-20 21:12 ` John R. Strohm [this message]
2003-01-20 15:56 ` karl bowl
2003-01-20 17:39 ` Jerry Petrey
2003-01-20 22:47 ` Alfred Hilscher
2003-01-21 14:55 ` Stephen Leake
2003-01-21 21:55 ` Alfred Hilscher
2003-01-23 17:06 ` Stephen Leake
2003-01-27 4:25 ` AG
2003-01-26 17:11 ` Alfred Hilscher
2003-01-21 17:23 ` karl bowl
2003-01-21 21:47 ` Alfred Hilscher
2003-01-05 12:42 ` Gautier
2003-01-05 18:58 ` Alfred Hilscher
2003-01-05 22:28 ` tmoran
2003-01-06 20:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-01-07 14:47 ` Alfred Hilscher
2003-01-07 18:56 ` Randy Brukardt
2003-01-08 9:43 ` Alfred Hilscher
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2003-01-04 22:16 ` Vinzent Hoefler
2003-01-07 18:14 ` Martin Klaiber
2003-01-08 9:01 ` Gautier
2003-01-08 11:13 ` Martin Klaiber
2003-01-08 17:25 ` Gautier
2003-01-08 17:52 ` Martin Klaiber
2003-01-10 3:07 ` Richard Riehle
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