Richard/Paul/Max
The Profax/Accredo story reminds me of Bristol making cars, it was said
that they wouldn't buy in a component for 5 pounds if they could make it
for 20, I've seen 2 Bristols on the road in my life.
I admire there UI philosophy (If we don't like it we rewrite it ) but
can't agree with much else in the product. Which leads me to think
(somewhat vaguely related)
1/ If Delphi is OO and encapsulated then why do some of us insist on
ignoring that at a macro level (and reinventing things)
2/ We use Delphi because it is the "Best of breed" dev tool, but why do
so many use Interbase/Firebird. which even the most deluded of us
couldn't say is in the same echelon (Richard excluded, he's paid to be
deluded)
3/ MySQL (and MYOB) offer a salient lesson here, neither product is
technically excellent but both are relatively ubiquitous, why? simply
because the decision to use them was not made by people with the
skill/experiance/knowledge to know better (Web Hackers and Accountants)
But the numbers count.
4/ Finally I'm dying to see how Paul et al does the DB independance with
triggers and stored procs trick, intellectually because it is enormously
difficult and fraught with danger, and philosophically because its
relatively pointless. Pragmatically you would choose MSSQL, With my
pathological hatred of M$ you would chuck in (select 1 from the
following list), PostgeSQL, My(Max)SQL, Firebird even 2 db's would drive
most dev's to distraction not only in static considerations
(functionality, stored proc script language, trigger syntax, ddl...) but
as you will find out the dynamic performance can vary considerably
executing 2 identical scripts on the same data....
Neven
Laugh of the Day, M$ are taking on their browser competition with IE7,
unfortunately you need XP with SP2 to run it
Richard Vowles wrote:
The last thing Paul needs is more people telling him he and his team are
clever.
:-)
Richard
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Behalf Of Leigh Wanstead
Sent: Friday, 19 August 2005 8:47 a.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected]
Subject: RE: [DUG] Demoing at a DUG Meeting - Accredo or otherwise
Hi Paul,
You are very clever. ;-) MySQL has a whole company just to support
database.
-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Heinz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 18 August 2005 5:55 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: RE: [DUG] Demoing at a DUG Meeting - Accredo or otherwise
Leigh asked:
May I ask how many developers you employ? The reason I ask is it seems
it need an army of software developers to develope and maintain the
code.
We have four developers in our team with the following core
responsibilities:
Paul Heinz - Database, Application,
Max Nilson - Controls, Designers, MaxBasic, Peter Stratford -
Application Steve Newby - SQL
Regards,
Paul.
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