----- Original Message ----- From: "Wojtek S" <wsoko52 at gmail.com>
In sum, the problem lies not that much with deficient programming skills, but with the fact that these skills often take the back seat to marketing and marketing gimmicks. Who cares if we produce crap as long as that crap sells and the management (and key stockholders) are happy.
------- Yes, the clearest example of this is that in many companies I have worked, there is never enough time for engineering refinements, but if they decide to rebrand, there's always three months to crawl through code and docs and make a change from say "Java Messaging Provider" to "Java Message Queue."
When I worked at sun we changed a product name five times. By the fifth iteration, it was almost identical to the original name.
Joanna