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Subject:Re: Process kills the dot.com From:Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Wed, 25 Oct 2000 20:42:46 -0400
John Posada wrote:
>
> Actualy, what I got out of it was that a vendor was an idiot, tried
> to fit a square peg into a round hole, and they sold their product to
> some more idiots with mouths bigger than their stomachs in an
> unfavorable environment. Process or no process, when you have company
> heads with poor skills and don't listen to experienced people, you
> usualy have failure
>
> I'm sure that Scient also used software, and they used computers, and
> they used people. Does that mean that using software, computers, and
> people dooms you to failure?
>
Far too many dot coms are run by brilliant engineers and geeks who have
no concept of running a business. They use tons of buzzwords and the
business plans are full of technobabble. They just do not step back and
say will this improve business, or is it a toy. Vendors, seeing a cash
cow take control and feel no ethical responsibility to step back and
phase in work. I am not saying this happened or did not happen here, but
I have seen it occur elsewhere. Today, at Internet World there seemed to
be a greater concentration on the business aspects. This business may
finally be starting to mature. <rant over, I am now ducking>
--
Peter
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promptly, and to the satisfaction of all concerned,
by either suicide, a bag of gold,
or thrusting a despised antagonist over a precipice on a dark night.
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