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<gross generalization>The dot coms were mainly filled with techies that didn't understand business.</gross generalization> And they failed, but they also built some great technology.

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Yeah, that's something I try hard to make programmers realize. It doesn't matter how cool your technology is if the company doesn't make money. Why should you care? Ask the out of work programmers you know whose jobs evaporated after the dot com they worked for went out of business.

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Crazy, but throwing money out the window happens everywhere, not just in software. And it's not anyone's fault. It's everyone's fault.

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Very true. In fact, I'm planning on expanding both my writing and seminars over the next year to cover the corporate world in general for just this reason. No matter what you do for a living as a worker, productivity and corporate profitability depend on the very same issues.

Chistopher Duncan

Author - The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (Apress)

http://www.showprogramming.com/TheCareerProgrammer.asp