David Andrews wrote:
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 10:24 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote:
I'll say it for all to hear: I'm a FIRM BELIEVER in BookManager. The LIBRARY
READER leaves me cold, since I'm not a great fan of JAVA.
Problem is that bookmangler isn't cross-platform, or wasn't last I
checked. Those of us with Linux on our desktops are left out.
(Though the last time I saw library reader I wasn't terribly impressed
with it either. IIRC they required a very specific JVM.)
look at what happened in the State of Washington years ago with "MARK
IV")
What happened? (Excuse the digression: the place I worked at 20 years
ago was a successful MarkIV installation. They replaced an awful lot of
COBOL code with it, and the couple of people we had that really "got"
MarkIV were terrifically productive.)
A number of COBOL applications were replaced with MARK IV replacements, with
"enhancements"; the net result was akin to a meltdown when processing
times skyrocketed
and visible results were distinctly inferior to the programs that were
replaced. Database query
times were measured with a calendar, instead of a stopwatch.
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