Maybe so - I looked and talked to a lot of people about "NY" projects. They were analogous to the missle defense program - spending lots of money and never meeting a benchmark.

The ones I saw that were in trouble were big team VFP Star Dot Star Framework projects. THey went on forever and never delivered a working interface. I am sure just one of our many innovators on the UT could have solved the problem in less than a year. But those hiring agencies are pretty suave / corrupt - completion is not a goal - endless time billing is. Morgan Stanely should have fished outside the hiring agencies and come directly to the market.

Outsourced projects are no guarantee either. I have been witness to a project here in houston - original delivery was touted as 7 months, here four years later, the user is in so deep, that should they change course, and fire these guys and gals, heads will fly. Bad decisions are their own insurance policy!


>>Interesting story about outsourcing. A Morgan Stanely representative says he can see no reason ... "why we would ever hire a New York Programmer again."
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>Can't blame them. What ould you do if you were the CEO? Pay someone in NY 100K/yr or pay someone in Inda $1K/yr?
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>I know it sounds bad, bad what can we do about it? Companies feel the need to cut cost to survive.....
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>Get out of "HI TECH" and get into medicine. Dental school, here I come.