Re: Today (Feb 26) IBM announcements

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 08:20:18 +0000 (UTC), docdwarf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>In the 1990s, most contractors were salaried. They were in a pool of
>>workers that was
>>moved from one client to the next. They were on a team.
>
>I used to refer to such folks as 'stable consultants', 'stable' in the 
>sense of 'group under central management', as in 'a stable of horses'.
>
>Some of them seemed not to like indies.

When I worked for EDS, I didn't have an option - we all were salaried
(but I did work on a development team, not in someone else's shop).
Later on, while working for headhunters, I never tried to get the
"stable" option, I didn't trust it.