From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 23 09:24:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F7DA37B401 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:24:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta2.adelphia.net (mta2.adelphia.net [64.8.50.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8424643F75 for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:24:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([24.53.179.151]) by mta2.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20030723162411.DACW14801.mta2.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com> for ; Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:24:11 -0400 Message-ID: <3F1EB6AA.10408@potentialtech.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:24:10 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Chat References: <3F1D1D56.5060107@iconoplex.co.uk> <3F1E1B3A.7EABD098@mindspring.com> <0hel0h9q3l.l0h@mail.comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <0hel0h9q3l.l0h@mail.comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: What does "enterpise" mean? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 16:24:12 -0000 Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Terry Lambert writes: > >>My first boss out of college taught me something that I've never >>forgotten, and it's always stood me in good stead: "Eventually, a >>software company has to ship software". > > They way I frequently heard it: "Eventually, they have to shoot the > engineers and ship the software." A friend once said to me, "Every artist should have someone assigned to him at birth whose job it is to take their work away from them at some point and force them to work on something new. Because artists are perfectionists, and without help they will work their entire life trying to get one work of art perfect, which is impossible." Don't know if that's a good idea or not ... but I've always considered programmers artists. The scenerio seems to apply. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com