I'll open this by sayinf that my salary comes from a pretty famous AV Co. that makes money due M$ crappyness. So if we talk about money, the more M$ there's around, the more my stock options will fly. My hope is that this mailing list is not about the money but more about the brain.
On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Terry L Fritts wrote: > I love Perl. I hate data typing. I love CPAN - there are such > wonderful modules. Besides programs don't have very long useful life > expectancies any more. If you get a year or two out of a program > you're doing pretty good. We worked on very different stuff. My old Co. makes a CAD/rendering application that born ( because of me ) using plain ANSI C using Watcom ( that gave us the full 32 bit flat address space ) back in 1991. The application is still there and is supposed to remain there. I opposed to death to the bunch on tendencies of 90' and I kept it using ANSI C and raw win32 API + raw ODBC. No ADO, EDO, MFC, XCFC, SUDO, Java, Lava ... that were pushed at that time as the latest technology that you must have. I think they're still grateful to me over there. Throwing away 2.5M lines of code, it's a lot of money. > Now I'm not as enthusiastic about this XML/XSLT stuff. It seems like a > lot of work to avoid programming to me. And then you end up having to > program it anyway. But I do like this Sql Server 2000. If you can > afford it - it is OUTSTANDING too. Maybe Sql Server 2000 is really the best db around here right now, but a friend of mine ( IT manager ) found himself kind-of-fired because he spent $250K ( back in 99 ) for NT4 servers + SQL servers, and all those stuff had to be thrown away because the system became unusable after 36-48 hours of uptime. And those machines were supposed to have uptime of at least 200 days. The guy that took his place was smarter. He spent another $350K for Sun+Oracle, and he's still working there for what I know. It's all related with the old way of saying that states aomething like : "noone has never been fired to have chosen oracle". ( and this comes from someone that is not really a great sun and oracle fan ) - Davide - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe xmail" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For general help: send the line "help" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
