Re: On large programming teams [RE: A Swedish Idea]

2001-04-23 Thread Noah Nordrum
- Original Message - From: Frank LaRosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Orion-Interest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 11:45 PM Subject: Re: On large programming teams [RE: A Swedish Idea] Adding more programmers to a product early in its development cycle can pay off. You have

RE: On large programming teams [RE: A Swedish Idea]

2001-04-23 Thread Frank Eggink
. -Original Message- From: Frank Eggink To: Orion-Interest Sent: 4/21/01 7:01 AM Subject: On large programming teams [RE: A Swedish Idea] The following is one of the classic readings on programming at large. 25 years old and I can still recommend it: The Mythical Man-Month from F.P

Re: On large programming teams [RE: A Swedish Idea]

2001-04-22 Thread Frank LaRosa
this serves to reduce the quality of the programming. - Original Message - From: Frank Eggink [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Orion-Interest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 7:01 AM Subject: On large programming teams [RE: A Swedish Idea] The following is one of the classic

On large programming teams [RE: A Swedish Idea]

2001-04-21 Thread Frank Eggink
em all :) Johan - Original Message - From: "Joseph B. Ottinger" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Orion-Interest" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:20 PM Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea Personally, I'm becoming more and more convinced that not only is Sweden

RE: On large programming teams [RE: A Swedish Idea]

2001-04-21 Thread Kemp Randy-W18971
is probably the closest, and they don't really have a cutting share of Bill's market. -Original Message- From: Frank Eggink To: Orion-Interest Sent: 4/21/01 7:01 AM Subject: On large programming teams [RE: A Swedish Idea] The following is one of the classic readings on programming at large

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-20 Thread Paul Kofon
is mailing list. Paul From: "Frank LaRosa" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Orion-Interest [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Orion-Interest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 00:52:23 -0500 What's the difference? We choose to write J2EE applications because J2EE is

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-20 Thread Joseph B. Ottinger
Just for the sake of completeness, let's all chip in for a car to see what happens in this circumstance. Maybe we can get rid of ALL of them at once, just to see if Orion goes away THEN. Then, for the sake of yet more completeness, let's try to somehow legally eradicate all of BEA's employees,

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-20 Thread Kemp Randy-W18971
. -Original Message- From: David Kinnvall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:32 PM To: Orion-Interest Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea They never get there about as much as this thread in its current shape provides any value whatsoever to Orion users. IMHO. /David

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-20 Thread David Kinnvall
;-) Forgot the funny side of it. It has been a long week. /David - Original Message - From: "Kemp Randy-W18971" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Orion-Interest" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 2:53 PM Subject: RE: A Swedish Idea Yes, but it does. It provide

(RE: A Swedish Idea) - Interbase licence

2001-04-19 Thread Randahl Fink Isaksen
Michael J. Cannon wrote: Interbase is not 'free.' Well, Michael, I already made a post of the parts in the Interbase licence that states that the database product is free. I think I read the licence very carefully, and as far as I can see, the licence is indeed free. The licence includes

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Michael J. Cannon
/projects/hsqldb web http://hsqldb.sourceforge.net dedmike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Neville Burnell Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 10:10 PM To: Orion-Interest Subject: RE: A Swedish Idea the autoupdate delivering an old

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Johan Fredriksson
4:20 PM Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea Personally, I'm becoming more and more convinced that not only is Sweden full of lousy programmers, but they're all lousy in congruent ways just to make the rest of the world's jobs harder. I say we all start using Bavarian products, if only because Bavarian

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Kemp Randy-W18971
- From: Hani Suleiman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:24 PM To: Orion-Interest Subject: RE: A Swedish Idea Argh, I really did try hard not to respond, but I can resist no longer... 'it's good enough for NASA' means nothing, nor is it relevant. Win98 is good enough

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Joseph B. Ottinger
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 05:04:48PM -0600, Jay Armstrong wrote: Fair enough, Mike, but my bottom line was: Why not ... address that issue (having MySQL and Orion folks talk to each other) directly? Why? Randy had a good thought -- the Thought Police should quit stomping on it. The issue is

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Jay Armstrong
April 18, 2001 4:20 PM Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea Personally, I'm becoming more and more convinced that not only is Sweden full of lousy programmers, but they're all lousy in congruent ways just to make the rest of the world's jobs harder. I say we all start using Bavarian products, if o

Re: A Swedish Idea (an aside)

2001-04-19 Thread Joseph B. Ottinger
Message - From: "Joseph B. Ottinger" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Orion-Interest" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:20 PM Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea Personally, I'm becoming more and more convinced that not only is Sweden full of lousy programmers, b

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Kemp Randy-W18971
: Jay Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 8:06 AM To: Orion-Interest Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea Generally, I agree with the comment about Micro$oft quality of code, though I've seen some pretty horrible code from outside the US, too. :) Bill Gates may be from

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Hani Suleiman
, as their practice of releasing alpha or beta quality products as production quality. -Original Message- From: Jay Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 8:06 AM To: Orion-Interest Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea Generally, I agree with the comment about Micro$oft

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Jay Armstrong
The groomsmen at my wedding were named Schotanus, Schloss and Schnakenberg -- no kidding -- if they all lived in the same city, they'd be on the same page in the phonebook. So, bring on the Germanic hordes! Now try to stay focused: Randy's idea was whether or not MySQL and Orion should talk

Re: A Swedish Idea (an aside)

2001-04-19 Thread Jay Armstrong
programmers are from...? I suppose that the country they're from produce the shittiest code of em all :) Johan - Original Message - From: "Joseph B. Ottinger" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Orion-Interest" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:20 PM Subject

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Kemp Randy-W18971
To: Orion-Interest Subject: RE: A Swedish Idea flamebait Unlike all those OSS products huh. /flamebait On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Kemp Randy-W18971 wrote: It has been said that if Bill Gates stopped to pick up a hundred dollar bill, he would be losing money. On a more serious note, it's really not

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Hani Suleiman
IL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 10:03 AM To: Orion-Interest Subject: RE: A Swedish Idea flamebait Unlike all those OSS products huh. /flamebait On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Kemp Randy-W18971 wrote: It has been said that if Bill Gates stopped to pick up a hundred dollar bill, he wou

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread David Kinnvall
7:08 PM Subject: RE: A Swedish Idea Yes, and like many turtles, they never get there. Believing in fairy tales is not a good basis for conducting business. The turtle and rabbit story is a way to tell average children 'yes, you might be stupid and slow, but you should keep trying'. I don't th

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread BAC10000
God forbids, what if one of them got into car accident, would there still be Orion.

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Michael J. Cannon
lo stardom? [:^b dedmike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kemp Randy-W18971 Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 11:49 AM To: Orion-Interest Subject: RE: A Swedish Idea OSS is like the turtles. They slowly craw along, and the best even

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Jay Armstrong
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jay Armstrong Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 10:17 AM To: Orion-Interest Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea The groomsmen at my wedding were named Schotanus, Schloss and Schnakenberg -- no kidding -- if they all lived

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Frank LaRosa
Orion-Interest" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 4:17 PM Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea God forbids, what if one of them got into car accident, would there still be Orion.

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Hani Suleiman
Why?!?! I have an idea, why don't IBM and BEA team up and release...logicsphere! After all, they're both US companies... On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Kemp Randy-W18971 wrote: Now this may be a dumb idea, and I am just thinking up brainstorms to promote Orion, but it occurred to me that both Mysql

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Joseph B. Ottinger
Personally, I'm becoming more and more convinced that not only is Sweden full of lousy programmers, but they're all lousy in congruent ways just to make the rest of the world's jobs harder. I say we all start using Bavarian products, if only because Bavarian names seem to have a better

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Robert Krueger
am I the only one on this list considering this useless discussion spam? karl and magnus are grownups making their own decisions and you don't actually believe repeating stuff that has been discussed on this list over and over again, inspires them? please contribute to getting the technical

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Kemp Randy-W18971
]] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 9:20 AM To: Orion-Interest Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea Personally, I'm becoming more and more convinced that not only is Sweden full of lousy programmers, but they're all lousy in congruent ways just to make the rest of the world's jobs harder. I say we all start

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Hani Suleiman
of a team called the Justice League, since he can't solve everything by himself. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 9:20 AM To: Orion-Interest Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea Personally, I'm becoming more and more

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Joseph B. Ottinger
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:54:02AM -0400, Kemp Randy-W18971 wrote: I'm from the USA, near Chicago, Il. What countries lead in quality of code? I would like to know. No matter what country the product is produced in, The best country in terms of code/quality ratio is Cameroon. you might find

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Kemp Randy-W18971
I said it may be a dumb idea. -Original Message- From: Hani Suleiman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 9:18 AM To: Orion-Interest Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea Why?!?! I have an idea, why don't IBM and BEA team up and release...logicsphere! After all, they're

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Joseph B. Ottinger
it meanses), then please apply said meaning to nearly everything in this thread. Thanks! :) - Original Message - From: "Joseph B. Ottinger" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Orion-Interest" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 3:20 PM Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Michael A Third
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of William JonesSent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 1:34 PMTo: Orion-InterestSubject: Re: A Swedish Idea Would some people please just grow up. If you don't want to use Orion then that is your decision. Vote with your feet and leave

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Michael J. Cannon
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hani Suleiman Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:24 PM To: Orion-Interest Subject: RE: A Swedish Idea Argh, I really did try hard not to respond, but I can resist no longer... 'it's good enough for NASA' means nothing, nor is it relevant. Win98

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Hani Suleiman
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Jay Armstrong wrote: But, let's say it doesn't support transactions. What's wrong with starting a dialog? Why bother? So the people who bleat about mySQL all the time are happier? Frankly I'd rather the Orion team concentrate on functionality and J2EE

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Jay Armstrong
I would guess that it would be MySQL making the majority (all?) of the changes to support J2EE platforms, not just Orion. To Orion, it's just another storage mechanism. As for "why bother?". Well, that's what "open" software is all about. Open minds, open discussions, open ideas, etc, etc.

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Michael J. Cannon
To: Orion-Interest Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea At first a zillion people picked up the continued development of HypersonicSQL (because it's *awesome* for development, but anyway... SourceForge was flooded with clones, but I believe that everyone got together and the de facto successor is now

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Neville Burnell
Subject: RE: A Swedish Idea hmmm...autoupdate...Magnus, Carl? what do we need to include in hsqldb to prevent this? (Credit to you Stan and whoever else contributes)... dedmike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stan Ng Sent: Wednesday