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From: cy@dbase.a-t.com (Cy Shuster)
Subject: Re: All Commercial Software Developers or Companies (pls read)
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In article <51145@ut-emx.uucp> awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels) writes:
>Folks keep trying to come up with good analogies and continue to fail.  Unless
>you plan on seeing that tape for several hundred hours and in some cases 
>stake aspects of your business on the outcome of viewing that tape, the
>two situations don't compare.
>
>I am getting very tired of software acquisition being a crap shoot and having
>many companies leech off that pool.

OK, I'll try an analogy: how do you evaluate your hardware?

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