On 24 May 2004 at 15:56, Christopher BJ Smith wrote: > At 2:47 PM -0400 5/24/04, David W. Fenton wrote: > >On 23 May 2004 at 15:07, Philip Aker wrote: > > > > > For a company with at least 10 times the number of programmers > > > that > >> Apple has, Microsoft should have released Longhorn within two > >> years. The real laugh is that the so called "Chief Software > >> Architect" of Microsoft would permit such an inflexible design to > >> proceed in the first place. > > > >\/\/hatever. > > > >You are obviously, much much smarter and more experienced with > >software engineering than anyone at Microsoft, so it's indisputable > >that Microsoft is incompetent. > > Without trying to further inflame the platform war, it seems to my > non-programmer's brain (and my brother's, too, who IS a programmer) > that having more programmers might not actually improve either volume > or speed of programming, not to mention quality. . . .
It's an indisputable fact that number of programmers does not correlate in any way, positively or negatively, with speed of development or quality of the final product. Ex cathedra pronouncements about what any software company should or should not be able to do are so much BS, no matter who they come from, since projects as complicated as operating systems cannot possibly be understood from the outside sufficiently to make judgments about when products should or should not be released. -- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
