• From: "Stephen Green" <stephen.green@b...>
• To: <xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:47:56 +0100

"They also serve who only stand and wait"  - Milton, John

>>> David Lyon <david.lyon@p...> 02/04/07 09:23:15 >>>
Michael Kay wrote:
>> But I do know of one guy that charged $250,000 p/a as a 
>> 'interoperability consultantant'. He didn't actually do any 
>> programming or implementation. Just looked at (message) 
>> exchanges at a stock-broking company.
>>     
>
> Actually, he probably listened to the arguments of the programmers who
> wanted to do it using tool X, and the arguments of the programmers who
> wanted to do it using tool Y, neither of whom was able to explain the
> business reasons for their preference; and then he told the managers which
> lot to back, and saved the company $2m a year by helping them get off the
> fence.
>
> (Alternative ending: he told the managers which lot to back but they ignored
> his advice and employed another consultant to give a third opinion...)
>   
quite possibly....

if so then I really need to get back into the corporate world because 
that sounds like the easy life to me.... :-)

are you listening Len ?


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