Microsoft's mythical man-years

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Apr 13, 2002 at 10:32:32PM -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
>It sure was.  However, managers at my current company will blindly say that 
>MS is still the best solution and pour more dollars into it's products - 
>but then our IT manager and the corporation feels Compaq and HP ares the 
>best choices for PCs so that's what we have to buy.  

Remember, IT manager's pay depends on the size of their empire.  It's easy
to build a big empire supporting crap systems that require constant
attention.

Bill
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