In the late 80’s I was a hyperactive programmer at a small VAX/VMS software house.
We were group of 5 programmers – we had some nice accounts – like Intel, and National Semiconductor, Hadassah Hospital and Amdocs, but I always felt intimidated by the big IT integrators. One day – my DEC account manager told me that we should hold our heads high – he figured that our largest competitor didn’t have more than 1 or 2 experts at our level.
Are data security specialists like programmers – where the rock stars have 3 orders of magnitude better productivity than the average guy or gal?
And should we try to have one of these folks on the staff and make sure they are happy?