It seems to me that the core of the problem was lack of courage. They fell behind schedule, their deadline needed shifting, and nobody wanted to tell that to the people with authority to shift the deadline.
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Mon 28 Oct, 2013 09:21 am
@maxdancona,
maxdancona wrote:
I am not here to defend it, I am just saying that most experienced software engineers have been there.
True. I remember several versions of Windows that fell a year behind. I bet Microsoft lost comparable amounts of money over this.
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Mon 28 Oct, 2013 09:23 am
@Baldimo,
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The US is the home of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, HP, IBM and Dell. Why did we look outside our borders when we have people here in the US that could have done this? So much for bringing jobs home to the US!
Most of these companies' employees work abroad. They would have offshored just as much of the work, probably more.
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Mon 28 Oct, 2013 09:46 am
@Baldimo,
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The US is the home of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, HP, IBM and Dell. Why did we look outside our borders when we have people here in the US that could have done this? So much for bringing jobs home to the US!
The unemployment rate for qualified software engineers is near 0% (this is highly skilled work). There are many American companies (including my own) who are desperately looking for American engineers with no luck.
