>>>Wow... brings back the warm and fuzzy memories, of end of August 2001, the month for which we didn't get paid. And 4 days of July too, and health for July... though this one wasn't embezzlement, it was "we'll junk the VFP app and do everything in VB6/COM/ASP/VBS/SQL/MTDLL".
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>>That was called 'Strategic thinking' by your ex CTO!
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>Strategic my posterior, VB6 and a "highly denormalized database", and "no views, no SPT, for every SQL operation you pass a recordset around to a COM MTDLL object"? The guy who lured them there was a high artist. The stuff was slow like molasses.
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>>Still dizzy after that year shiny DevCon, even CTO's can make mistakes sometimes. I am sure every 'flathead' or bassfish can understand him completely for baiting that lure. <vbg>
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>Worse. Here's a dialog I had with colleagues within months of my arrival:
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>guys: the problem is that the three guys in the upper management have three opinions on what the strategy should be.
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>me: then we need to lock them in a room and have them decide.
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>guys: we've done that already. Still three opinions.
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>>[ Taj tvoj CTO sto je 'pao na buckalicu' mora da je im'o barem 100 kila! :)) ]
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>One of those three guys did have over 100kg, it was one of the investor hunters who decided we need to fire old customers, so to cut the maintenance cost. So the VFP product team was gradually reduced to one person (me).

Firing customers to cut maintenance cost ??? That is savy policy!

Then again;
Who need customers/employees *getting in the way* when you *catch* big investors as shareholders <vbg>
Was it beffore or after stock bubble ?