Assume that the superstar=100*average_programmer is true, then tell me: How many of these superstars are there in the world and how likely is it that they want to work at your startup?
It seems that many people here have experience with these superstars? Maybe they are not so rare after all?
Oh the memories :-)
That article is from about 1990. At that time it was widely referenced in neural network research. I also used it as a reference in my masters thesis in 1993.
In the bank where I work, the banking system uses DB2 on mainframes.
Our data warehouse uses SAS.