Oh, the emails you'll get...

Posted by tuxchick on Nov 28, 2006 2:05 AM EDT
Joel on Software; By Joel Spolsky 		Mail this story
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A management consultant at Bain wrote me a nice email, that included the following sentence:

"Our team is conducting a benchmarking effort to gather an outside-in view on development performance metrics and best practice approaches to issues of process and organization from companies involved in a variety of software development (and systems integration)."

I didn't understand a thing he wrote.

This shows the stark contrast between the FOSS model and typical commercial business practices. It seems that merit is not even a criterion in the suits' world- TC

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