The pedestrian bridge that collapsed in Florida earlier in the year? Getting closer.
Was talking with a friend this evening who happens to be a VP of development at financial service company in Chicago. He was pretty much railing-on about the utter lack of knowledge at the upper echelons about the time and expense required to pull of IT and engineering efforts. Says they had a product bringing in $70MM in revenue and were limiting reinvestment to an entire $2MM for development, maintenance, and equipment along with a full-time staff of 7 developers (who are also on call 24/7). They can’t understand why they are having reliability and scalability issues. It should just work with a wave of the magic wand. Get moving hamsters. That’s the level of direction.