Hi all,

I can't resist a story.  The company I worked for a long time ago, before
they hired me, hired a consulting company and spent over 1/4 million on a
system design.  When I started working I asked what that big ball of paper
was on the shelf.  They said it was a $250,000 basket ball.  (It was just
about the size of a basket ball).  It turned out that after months of work
the company delivered a huge stack of completely useless paper that very
clearly showed they hadn't understood the requirements.  I said so why did
you mash it up into a ball and put it on the shelf.  They said well at least
that was fun, and it cost so much it was a shame to throw it away!

Ron Teitelbaum

> From: David T. Lewis
>
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 02:32:56AM +0200, Igor Stasenko wrote:
> > It's okay , for me, for being paid $1000 for an application which
> > putting 'Hello word' on screen, after half-year of study of new
> > platform. But i don't think that there is many people in the world who
> > will pay me such sum for that :)
> 
> Ha! Large companies routinely spend thousands of times that amount on
> projects that never get as far as putting 'Hello word' on the screen.
> I think that you would be offering them a great bargain ;)
> 
> Dave
>