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Subject: Re: MIPS to offer COBOL
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Date: Tue, 27-Jan-87 20:44:54 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 27 20:44:54 1987
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From: phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai)
>Well, I see no one disputes my method (newspaper job openings) of
>finding out what various vendors are planning...

A few years ago I used to go thru the Sunday Boston Globe help
wanted ads and count up the various flavors of programming jobs
advertised as some indicator of something (mostly, the growth of
UNIX as "real".) I would hang the results on my office door.

The CIA or NSA or some such has been known to analyze for-sale ads in
Russian newspapers to infer various things, especially in smaller
towns (like the rate of movement in and out of certain classes of
people.)

It's a fine way to infer things, I've done it on net.jobs and
discovered things. We all noticed here a year ago or so when Wang
started advertising for UNIX systems people...

	-Barry Shein, Boston University