On 02/20/06 02:56 am Richard Crowley wrote:

Guess I'm aging myself. This was back in 1983-1986. LOL

Yes, that was back when they had BOTH...
1) Good help (folk who knew a resistor from their elbow)
2) Actual corporate cognizance of what the electronics
business is. In the last few years, it seems to me that the management
in Texas doesn't know (or care) whether
they are in the electronics business, or selling fried
chicken or furniture.

US companies (*perhaps* companies in other countries too, but probably
to a lesser extent) don't care whether their CEOs know anything about
their particular products or services. Someone can go from a fast-food
co. to a computer co., to an automobile manufacturer, to a health-care
corporation, all the while knowing very little about the specifics of
the industry and getting a salary and benefits many times (hundreds of
times?) more than the CEO of a European company who actually has a
degree in electrical engineering or whatever is relevant to the
company's products.

"Perce"
(aka Alan NV8A)