[thechat] Opinion on War

[Martin Burns]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Madhu Menon wrote:

> At 03:34 AM 28-01-03, Ben Dyer wrote:
> >Because nothing helps the economy like a good, old-fashioned war.  At
> >least, this is what I presume to be his train of thought.
>
> But wouldn't that be more for people like Mcdonnell Douglas and Lockheed
> Martin?
>
> How does war create more jobs in web development, for example?

http://evolt.org/wheretheworkis/

"Now this isn't abstract theory. It has a direct impact on generating a
large amount of work for people with skills in web technologies over the
next couple of years. But that work isn't going to be at the front end,
facing customers, because most brand-owning companies already have
customer-facing sites, which is only going to be tweaked, or at best
redeveloped if it's not actually producing business value.

No, by far the greater amount of work over the next few years is going to
be on the supply-side, hooking systems together, producing extranets and
so on. "

Cheers
Martin


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