Lehman was the last company standing of the old boys what destroyed it was actually the very nature of the US bond market it is opaque so you can hide a lot from the regulators and accountants.

I would not comment about Chrysler but GM I know first person, the gas guzzlers is not the problem the cost structure based on the gas guzzlers that was the problem, I worked on the application that would have allowed GM to reduce head count by half just on the production side, the math needed adjustment but GM IT was treating the engineer who created something so important as a hired hand on call only when needed. I met with his team twice at their GM office and asked for the math changed to cost each product built and I was promptly removed from the project.

The most disturbing is the electrical concept car project is run now by mechanical engineers, that is like hoping a VB only programmer can write and cleanup very low level C++ code and the short answer is no.

Office 2007 needs the top bar redesigned so I don’t need to run a search to find save as, that is base functions must be available by default when last I checked this is a user application. SQL Server 2008 breaking T-SQL code in most cases Microsoft is not to blame because ANSI SQL users this writer included cross reference the T-SQL reference with current ANSI SQL checking level of compliance. When T-SQL code breaks in most cases it means Microsoft ANSI SQL compliance is improving which is good thing. The only problem I see with SQL Server 2008 is the SSRS documentation telling users that file system deployment is the default when it takes away base IIS dependent features while rich companies using SharePoint or TFS(Team Foundation Server) are not affected, that creates two layers of SSRS users. The documentation needs to create alternative deployment paths so companies can choose deployment based on needs.