I hear you on that one.. I have to wonder how many systems all of us have seen that were ported from something to something and then back again, just because it was the flavor of the month
On 4/1/2010 2:06 PM, Michael Madigan wrote: > I got a cooperative education job at RCA in Camden in 1986. Part of my job > was to learn and teach dBASE III to other RCA employees. > > While there, I also began work on a program that would keep track of Spare > parts for RCA for the Trident Submarine program. RCA would maintain parts > that could be shipped all over the world to be swapped out when a Sub came > back into port. > > I continued working in dBASEIII through 1993 when I was asked to bid on a > project to track simulation data for an aircraft fire fighter training > facility which was to take in test data through a serial port and save it to > a data base to be analysed later. Since the specs on the system stated that > it had to be Windows-Based, we proposed Foxpro 2.5 for Windows as the > database side, but to keep the system able to accept data at a rapid pace, be > proposed using C libraries that created and maintained foxpro databases for > the real-time work. > > While that proposal was going on, I got the job to create a Collections > Agency database. So I decided I would do it in Foxpro for Windows so that I > could immediately have the skill set to write the simulator software when we > got the job. > > We never got the job, and I'm not even sure it was ever awarded to anyone. > The customer was The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and they had a > habit of wasting everyone's time with proposal after proposal after meeting > and after meeting. It turns out that the only people making money were the > consultants working for the Port Authority. > > That's how I wrote my first Foxpro for Windows program. > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
