> The problem was that It is difficult to pitch the info at the right people
Allways the problem. Dilbert managers are the ones who you have to
convince, but they are clue-devoid, developers worth their salt already
know, and users dont give a rats behind aslong as it works, works fast,
and they dont feel like a total idiot using it.
BTW, I'm of the opinion that everyone should be out reading "The Inmates
are running the asylm" by Alan Cooper (www.cooper.com) - same guy who
did "About Face", ie, the UI bible. ESPECIALLY managers. and developers.
> I was at a clients recently and they'd bought a POS system written in VB
> with a Jet DB
>
> The problem with Delphi has always been that it is so flexible it doesn't
> push you in the right direction
No, the problem with other tools is they push you a direction, take you
so far, then leave you to your own devices, ie in VB you could never
write your own controls - so it was fine if you wanted to stick with the
20 or so they provided, but it was crap if you wanted to do your own
(which in most cases you should). Delphi allows you to go in pretty much
any direction - low level (OK, not as low as some would like (device
drivers), but close) or high level (form design etc), DB, non-DB,
visual, commandline, etc etc. Hell, it can even still do procedural!!!
> Finally we have a mainstream free SQL server which is upwardly scalable -
> rejoice!
Except its from MS and based on MSSQL7. Definatly not a reason to
rejoice. If it was cut-down oracle, then......
> I was really pitching at people who still use Paradox with a TTable!!
Well, yes..... :)
>
> BTW TTable should be banned!
In C/S it should, yes. Especially with filters. I reciently converted an
app that used TTable (well, TIBTable) over a 25000 record table - it
opened it in FormActivate (or FormCreate), then filtered it. It took 15
mins to load. I converted it to use TIBQuery, and it now runs in
realtime. The only thing I removed was the type-and-search function, but
the user can still type a bit of a product code, hit enter, and have the
results reduced.....
> Regards to Annie
I will, when I see her next :)
Nic
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