Re: Ordering from Germay, the (not) solution

On 3 Jan 2007 06:56:35 -0800, "Ingvar Nilsen" <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Writing a 64 bit compiler and porting the VCL to Unicode seems peace of
cake compared to delivering the product to willing buyers, waiting with
their money ready.

Reminds me of a company I worked for. We had just been bought by some
large international corporation. I was a technician, installing
servers/pc's and software. Suddenly we had nothing to do, almost
everyone in my group just sat around in our offices doing nothing
(well nothing that brought any income anyway).

After a few days I asked if this was normal this time of the year (I
was young and hadn't been there that long). My coworkers said that
nope, all their friends in other companies were working their asses
off.

So I asked my boss. He said that he had just had a call from a
desperate salesman. The salesman said that he had just turned down a
sale of one server and 9 workstations + installation. This was because
the new official policy, courtesy of the new owners, was that we were
only to sell to the 100 largest companies in Norway...

Took about 3 months and someone else bought the shop, but by then I
was long gone. Contract was finished and the new policy was no new
personel, they could only hire consultants...

Lets hope CG can break free of Borland soon enough...

- Asbjørn
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