yeah, really. i'm not a fan of submissions like that aren't at least tagged with the date. sometimes it's not until the fifth paragraph when you read something suspect like 'dotcoms bursting... high-end c++ gui programming.. the hell?' that you realize you're reading a fossile.
I actually like the article but simply wonder if, in the context of 2001, it was not widely believed that organizations like Accenture were incapable of building wonderful software.
Reading this is kind of like reading an article from the 1950's arguing that black people ought to have the same rights as whites. The premise is still valid, but the doubt which justified the article's existence has since been erased.
