Interesting, it's a shame that what he says isn't really true.
George
On 08/07/2008 19:59, Hennessey, Mark F. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This appeared in the letters to the editor section of the July 1
Software Development Times
HIS PICK FOR AN OS IS CLEAR
I read your article
LOL I agree. He should speak for himself.
I'd trade my legacy software developer job for a data
warehousing/business intelligence/database developer job tomorrow.
Karen Bessel
Software Developer
Tyler Technologies, Inc.
6500 International Parkway, Suite 2000
Plano, TX 75093
Phone:
Karen,
Aren't you already doing those jobs on U2?
Jerry
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It was virtually accurate, IMHO. %-)
I sympathize with Karen. This is why we offered 3 new technologies at the
recent Texmug meeting:
XML, Imaging MV, and the new object enabled MV database - OpenQM.
We must add new tools to our belt to keep ourselves viable. I'm sorry you
couldn't make it
Nope. I don't do any data warehousing, business intelligence, or
database development in my current position.
I guess I should have been more specific. I would love to have a job
doing one or all of those things in a current, marketable technology
like Oracle or SQL Server.
I've uprooted my
Well, just don't let anyone tell you that SQL is new
The first version of SQL was developed at IBM by Donald D. Chamberlin and
Raymond F. Boyce in the early 1970s.
from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
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laughing
That was my first reaction, too. Doesn't seem to know the difference
between virtualization and platform independence.
My second thought, when the editor lobe of my brain kicked in, was,
My. What an 'interesting' attitude and tone to use to try to win
over an editor to your
I hate to say it but it's our own fault. Many of us have been around a
while and now have positions of influence as far as the software systems.
If you are still writing green screen apps in this day and age then you
deserve what you get. While we have a Universe backend, there will never
be
Curious, what you feel is untrue about what the author said.
A few years ago the one of Microsoft's directors of development wrote an
article (I believe it was titled One Step Forward, Two steps back)
wherein he pointed out how the original Pick Data model was so good.
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I know what you mean, but the concept that Pick did virtualisation in the
70s and that the world would have been a different place if Dick Pick had
lived longer are stretching credibility.
But there is certainly something in the 'nothing is new' analysis. Years
ago mainframes used dumb screens
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