| Nope. Hold onto your hat for THIS big surprise! Constant upper
level reorgs and budget crunching stopped any money from being
committed to following through with these proposals, despite earlier
promises to the contrary. It was a productive exercise to identify the
problems and potential solutions, and I think it was an eye-opener to
upper management as to the extent of the software development
shortcomings in the company and money it would take to catch up with
the rest of the industry. Maybe this actually contributed to their
apparent defocus on the software business, although it's difficult to
tell if it's any more defocused than it was before.
Chip, who drove this effort and one before it, left the company
along with a lot of other talented people in the meantime.
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