> Well, I'm not defending 6S, but in virtually every case one doesn't > need to know a thing about another's job to tell another how to do it > better. This is because no matter what you produce, you produce a > product that others buy. And you either do that efficiently and > market and sell your product effectively or you don't.
One should know something about what one is critiquing if one spends many many man-hours producing a document that states unequivically that the best way to do something is a way that was outmoded and abandoned several years before. Everything may be a product to somebody but please, I beg, try not to confuse an idea about what *might* make a process better with practical experience and "in-the-trenches" know-how. Case in point, replace CISCO routers that function exactly to parameters portion by a highly specialized portion of a company --A small portion, but one that requires the ability to make multiple VLANs etc on an almost ad hoc basis--with NetASQ routers, three to four times the cost, for literally half the functionality (90% of the company at large's needs are met with NetASQ inferior functionality). Further add to that a hefty maintenance fee from a corporate level IT division who adds no value other than oversight. Net result, had saner heads not prevailed, the small portion of the company--while toeing the company line--would have lost a crucial ability to function in a mode necessary to keep customer projects firewalled off from each other, in our industry, that is a HUGE deal. That, sir, is only a small portion of some of the SickSegull streamlining decisions that have been made. And FWIW one of the ones that didn't affect me directly. FWIW a SickSeagull Blackbelt told me I should adopt PHP or ASP because it is free. When I countered that out-of-the-box functionality, years of experience and lower average development time for CF far outweigh the cost benefit of free or open source technology especially given the learning curve and the rapid pace of change within our organization, I was able to convince my manager that the SS was a tad on the mistaken side. Not that I would mind learning a new tech, just not at the expense of scrapping everything I have developed so that some suit can feel good about saving the company a few shekels. Sorry to disagree... -- will "If my life weren't funny, it would just be true; and that would just be unacceptable." - Carrie Fisher ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:223704 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
