<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Actually, it seems that these people get ahead by commanding more people. It makes them more "important". Much better from their perspective to have an army of 100 J--heads rather than 10 'talkers. Its a prestige thing. Then they justify it by "market availability of talent".</DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 11, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Klaus D. Witzel wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">But in competition, what counts is how many people the CIO or CTO can eliminate from the payroll,</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>