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 Len, > 2. When picking among the alternatives, requirements dominate clever > code. A very real challenge to cat herding is knowing which cats are > doing something useful, say, can be sold in a contracting environment if > you sell big systems. Good point. This probably seems to describe the direction of xml these days. Everything is about the big companies. It's true, clever code solutions are always blocked out in a corporate environment. Management goes with the nice sounding salespeople who entertain with backhanders, theatre tickets and football match passes. After the deal is signed, then the expensive contractors come in who only just last week were Nurses or in the Army or Graduates something totally unrelated and begin work. Beavering away at high rates trying with idea just to figure out what to do. Looks good. Everybody working. How can clever code ever challenge that? I don't think it can. I think Open-Source is the only way. Maybe Mr MySQL found the same thing. The Nurse-last-week-now-IT-guru downloads some wanna-be project having no idea that the thing hardly even works and asks Mr WannaGoLunch Boss to work on it. Doesn't work properly and after a few months the project gets canned. All is ok though because the Client paid for it and everybody looked good. Kitchen is finished. New RV arrives. And off in the Ether the bodgy project got two lines of bad code fixed. As for deciding which cats go on to bigger and better things. It's usually the things that appeal to managements sense of greed. Anything with a bit of greed is usually a sure fire hit inside a big company. Whether it is more rows in the database, more connections.. more Mhz.. more geographic coverage whatever... If it can be made to appeal to the greedy... all will probably work out well in the end.... Oh yes... I forgot to mention the "experts". They would love to jump on board of course... but gave up their idealism long ago and left to do other things. Maybe they figured getting upset ain't worth it anymore and there is a new show on at the theatre. Maybe they do some cat-herders in their spare time... Regards David 
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