Re: The IDS, the EDS and the DBMS
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 09:00:06 -0400
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"Gene Wirchenko" <genew_at_mail.ocis.net> wrote in message news:hhonj0l2dabsltf30cid47b99feuknt8mj_at_4ax.com...
> >Unfortunately, all this gives production people a very short sighted
view,
> >and data management is where the long view really pays off, if you can be
> >patient enough and smart enough.
>
> Pardon me? You seem to have that reversed. If one is not even
> concerning oneself with the data management, that is less than
> shortsighted: it is willful blindness.
>
> Production happens. If you do not allow for it, you will not get
> much for results.
Your comments are correct, but it is not I that has reversed things. It's the marketplace.
If the "results" you are seeking are the sale of millions of copies of the software, and the deposit of the payments, then you can laugh all the way to the bank, even if the client is disappointed after the client tries to go into "production". Many software vendors act as though this were their plan.
And, just in case, they have the client sign an EULA that includes a clause that states (paraphrased): "If this product trashes the client's data, that's the clients fault, not the vendor's fault." Received on Mon Sep 06 2004 - 15:00:06 CEST