Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!dvlmarv!alanm
From: alanm@dvlmarv.UUCP (Alan Matsuoka)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Software Industry in Canada -- general remarks and questions
Message-ID: <1094@dvlmarv.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 88 20:31:48 GMT
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In article <2441@geac.UUCP> david@geac.UUCP (David Haynes) writes:
>In article <500@spectrix.UUCP> clewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris R. Lewis) writes:
>>In article <2649@csli.STANFORD.EDU> tylman@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Galia Tylman) writes:
>>>... The
>>>large US companies that have "branch" offices in Canada tend to have their
>>>research done in the US (ie IBM).
>
>I don't know how much `research' these companies are really doing. From
>the reports I have from friends in IBM Labs, not much new stuff is going
>on in Canada -- mostly maintenance of older software and `Whatever Rodchester
>doesn't feel like doing'. 

That's true. Actually R&D  should be really spelled as r&D.

There is some research ( small r ) but mostly DEVELOPMENT (very large D).

What passes off as development in a lot of places is really just maintenance.
Some shops like to refer to it as "enhancements" ( better known as
patching ).

You'll find that the meaning of the words research, development and
maintenance all have different meanings depending on who you happen to
be talking to.

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