--- "Richard G. DAVIS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Very nice piece.  Finely crafted with very accessible prose as is the
> usual
> standard with Rick Marshall.
> 
> Distribute this to all your associates as you can.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Richard.
> 

I agree, and especially liked the part about "relevant" complaints
rather than irrelevant ones. Even so, I fear that the strategy of
trying to sell VistA by telling people how difficult it is to learn and
use is one that's likely to backfire. Yes, I know there's an issue of
managing expectations, but I think people are going to start expecting
more tangible reasons for why it is worth the effort. If Rick's article
was at all unsatisfying, it's because it had little to offer along he
lines of what VistA can actually do. But it did make the point that you
cannot expect to reap the rewards of using a powerful system without
investing the necessary effort.


===
Gregory Woodhouse  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>


"Interaction is the mind-body problem of computing."

--Philip Wadler













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