Alex Martelli wrote: [...] > Still, I'm not disputing that CA "got screwed"... though it looks like > they did it to themselves -- they didn't stop to consider the need to > WOO developers to actually get them onboard as a part of the overall > deal, just sort of assumed they "came with the package"!-) Bad people > management must be close to the #1 cause of failure of promising mergers > and acquisitions (and I'm not sure the qualifying part of this sentence, > after "failure", is needed;)... > In fact one might argue that the poor management of traditional software development efforts is one of the main reasons why open source continues to become so popular. One can develop software without having to deal with pointy-haired types.
Ultimately this will, I suspect, lead to wider appreciation of how software development can be better organised in a commercial context (as it appears may already be the case at Google). *Then* I might start to get interested in management as a career :-) regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
