> Personally, I think they should subsidize a book and keep it current.
> Educated developers make productive developers.
Hi Roger,
We looked very closely at whether a book would make sense,
and decided against it for two reasons.
First, it would be prohibitively expensive ($500/copy) due to short runs.
We considered subsidizing this (about $500,000) but instead focused on
hiring engineers to work on improving the core ND5 appserver product.
More importantly for developers, we decided that a book would make it much
harder to keep the documentation current, given all the changes between
each version of each database, webserver, driver, JDK, and so forth.
Typically there is a six month delay at best between submitting a book and
it actually getting to a bookstore, and this would be too long-- by the
time you started reading the book, it would already be out of date.
The decision was difficult and close, and I personally agree with you that
a book would be great. I'm about as techie as they come, and I am totally
comfortable reading documentation online, but I still really like books.
Cheers,
Joel Henderson
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