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On all I concur...
Their development platforms are just as bad.
I remember a PC project I worked on somewhere around the tail end of the 90's,
a pretty big one at that. By the time project was complete, the development
environment and platform had changed under our feet. I was so pissed because
we couldn't just leave the project on the older platform, which caused us a few
months delay. I just shook my head wishing I had a baseball bat so I can put
it use on the head of someone at MS. WTH were these folks thinking?
Last year I was called in to solve a connectivity/IDMS/DB2 problem of a
home-grown VB application that connected with the mainframe DB platforms using
Shadow. Turns out the ODBC driver was updated on a couple of workstations and
the app stopped working. The only solution...? Recompile and rebind
everything related to the app that ran on those workstations.
I would like to say "don't get me started", but unfortunately, I already am...
:(
Calm down, Green... Calm down....
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Pop a handful of Valium and start planning that mid-summer fishing
trip............. Get you mind on something you enjoy. :-)
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