Well. It's always good to have input.
I did get your point actually. and in many ways I may not disagree.
My point was to play advocate for your opinions which are strongly
worded as facts. You are writing comments which imply a knowledge and
understanding of other peoples companies and infrastructure and goals
that would almost need to benefit from being an employee or inside man ;)
When I talk about small footprint, I'm not talking about the size of the
shoe.
You keep talking about the less-qualified people making all the bad
mistakes etc etc.
>>enough il-qualified people saying a product is 'good' is worth more
than the products inherant qualities.
but who are those people? would they be all the rich successful people
who do not think the world revolves around software....
I guess the inherant quality all those rubbishy applications have is to
make more money for people who "don't know any better" :)
And those don't know any better people will drive around in their BMW's
and AUDI's telling there well-qualified software guys to hurry the hell up.
Trust me.. it drives me nuts too... but the customer is right. always.
Thats probably why you are going to grow truffles with all your acumen
and use MS Word to write to your customers, with a bit of Excel on the
side and let the accountant dabble in MYOB. Once you start working in a
"real" non-software world, I find that the brain really doesn't care
about the quality of the product under the hood just the job that it
does to make money.
Oh, and the reporting 3 tier thing is no problem.. done ages ago.. but
its not open-source, not even for sale, and no one gets to see it.. I
think M$ calls it commercial advantage, because its about money isn't
it, rather than Open-Sourced friendship :) Right Richard? (about the money)
Please not that most of my facts, contain the use of the word "I", the
smallest most powerful word which will leave me open to
harrasementbecause they are actually opinions, and not intended to be
represented as fact. I prefer to use I in a forum rather than the lack
of it, because this content may not actually, be factually, correct. End
of disclaimer. And I ran out of 5c pieces
Neven MacEwan wrote:
Kyley
Sorry you missed the point, The component they made for 20 was
generally no better than the one off the shelf. In fact on of the best
things about early bristols was the BMW engine. Exclusive and
Expensive yes, good cars probably, but they are not great cars. You
must give them credit for aluminium bodywork (on an italian principle)
and windtunnel testing (and the fact that they are still in production)
> Without developers like Paul and Profax pushing
> the envelope we wouldn't have linux or any of the other things like
> PostgeSQL which is also just another wheel.
What? a propriertary Accounting System is comparable to an open source
project? have a look at www.compiere.org, The point I was trying to
make is that as much as I admire Paul & Max's work they are not
"pushing the envelope" they are making the "perfect envelope",
FYI PostgreSQL was probably the first decent Open source DBMS project,
Technically it outstrips MySQL, but still plays 2nd fiddle to it, Do
you get it now? We may like to think that we work in a meritocritous
industry, but actually we are in an period where disruptive Open
Source technologies are taking a lot of directions from commercial
ones, enough il-qualified people saying a product is 'good' is worth
more than the products inherant qualities.
Neven
Kyley Harris wrote:
>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 would say that this is actually a compliment in the best way ;) It
means that you believe your customers should not settle for second
best just because everyone elses customers have to... Good work.
>> I've seen 2 Bristols on the road in my life.
Who around here has? I don't hang out for tea and scones with the
elite and go for a sunday drive in their Bristol before hopping on
the private cruize liner home... The closest I come to is watching
the apprentice with Donald Trump. ;) The type of person who spends
200,000 on a watch because Rolex is cliche....
If you were a car dealer/ or a software dealer would like to try and
sell 20 Suzukis to people who are scrimping for funds, or sell one
decent car to someone who has an open cheque for unique quality....?
I prefer option 2.
There are other companies around locally who have written their own
databases ( not me ) and they did it when Microsoft didn't exist and
oracle was a tiny nothing... Their customers will keep using it when
Microsoft forces another reinvention of the wheel, because it works.
Perhaps the Profax clients look at everyone elses products and go
"Thank god I'm not using that ubiquitous shit." perhaps they are even
happy to pay for a product that works instead of paying to have it
get fixed all the time.
I use delphi because I like pascal and Delphi did do a good job. I
like firebird because it is simple light and quick. It never said it
was oracle competition.. and it kicks ass over DBISAM and other small
light databases. In fact in its class as a lightweight I would say
that is is "Best of Breed" apples with apples. Perhaps that
pathological M$ hatred is bleeding into other areas and the delusion
is in hating a company, but then writing products for their OS's.
Lastly... Delphi is OO and also non-OO. its each persons choice to
use 1 or both options. and as for encapsulation... Just because
delphi has a vcl, doesn't mean that its encapsulated, or even written
properly, or bug free. Being OO does not automatically define
encapsulation. If someone gives me a hammer with a split in the shaft
that cant be glued back together its not reinventing the wheel to
create a hammer that is better for that job..... Sometimes delphi
gives you a sledge hammer when what you need is a soft mallet. Thats
why we are programmers and architects. If you can't use your own
creativity to decide that something is not right then you are
basically a jigsaw puzzle maker, or a lego builder... If people
didn't insist in reinventing things, we wouldn't have decent source
code, or compilers or OS's. we wouldn't event have computers. without
developers like Paul and Profax pushing the envelope we wouldn't have
linux or any of the other things like PostgeSQL which is also just
another wheel.
that would be my 3c
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