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example follows. When one of the authors of this book was working as a subcontractor
on a defense contract, we were required, as part of the contract, to build the
product and test the product in the same environment as it would be used. Well,
the system under development was only going to be used by six people at any given
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time, although it could be used by up to two hundred simultaneous users during
peak loads. So the powers-that-be overseeing the contract decided that, if only
six people were going to use the system at any given time, then only six personal
computers would be necessary. The project managers had determined that to meet
the time constraints for the project (a large, database-driven claims processing system),
fifteen programmers, three database administrators, five test personnel, and
one database manager were needed. That adds up to needing at least twenty-four
personal computers. We were allowed six. The solution was to work shift-work and
share the computers. This contract was canceled after three years and no usable
code was produced.
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