Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:24:10 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What does "enterpise" mean? Message-ID: <3F1EB6AA.10408@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <0hel0h9q3l.l0h@mail.comcast.net> References: <E28BB957-BBEF-11D7-B762-0030657B5F1E@alltel.net> <3F1D1D56.5060107@iconoplex.co.uk> <3F1E1B3A.7EABD098@mindspring.com> <0hel0h9q3l.l0h@mail.comcast.net>
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Gary W. Swearingen wrote: > Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> 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
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