|  |     	Nope. Hold onto your hat for THIS big surprise! Constant upper
    level reorgs and budget crunching stopped any money from being
    committed to following through with these proposals, despite earlier
    promises to the contrary. It was a productive exercise to identify the
    problems and potential solutions, and I think it was an eye-opener to
    upper management as to the extent of the software development
    shortcomings in the company and money it would take to catch up with
    the rest of the industry. Maybe this actually contributed to their
    apparent defocus on the software business, although it's difficult to
    tell if it's any more defocused than it was before.
    	Chip, who drove this effort and one before it, left the company
    along with a lot of other talented people in the meantime.
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