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Re: Seen the STC Survey on May 22? (Was: TC definition)
Subject:Re: Seen the STC Survey on May 22? (Was: TC definition) From:"Bill Swallow" <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Michael West" <WestM -at- conwag -dot- com> Date:Tue, 27 May 2008 13:04:42 -0400
Agreed, though to be honest, I didn't draw the connection either. But
I had other bigger issues with the survey than which bucket to plop
myself.
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 8:08 PM, Michael West <WestM -at- conwag -dot- com> wrote:
>> The funny thing is, when I was prompted to choose the industry that I
> work
>> in, once again, "Software" was not included. I don't work for
>> manufacturing, I don't work for IT, I work for a software company!
>> [...] Software is all we do, and we
>> don't report to IT. In our organization, IT is the "help desk support"
> part
>> of the company.
>
> Perhaps I'm overlooking something ironical here, but a "software company"
> is clearly within the IT industry for all intents and purposes, regardless
> of how your place of employment chooses to organize itself internally.
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Bill Swallow
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STC Single-Sourcing SIG Manager http://techcommdood.blogspot.com
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