Re: <bits OT> dbdebunk 'Quote of Week' comment

From: paul c <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac>
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:52:26 GMT
Message-ID: <upQOe.295944$5V4.207716_at_pd7tw3no>


BobTheDataBaseBoy wrote:
> ...
> can you please go yell at the knuckleheads i work with?? half are
> COBOL/VSAM
> refugees of an older age. the other half are java/object folks of a
> much younger age. neither half realizes that they both do the same
> thing. it is very frustrating to hear talk of "open systems". blech.
> ...

heh, especially frustrating when one goal of the RM is to be a 'closed' system. i wonder if some marketing hack deliberatly coined the 'open system' BS just to jab the RM people. on second thought it probably wasn't a jab, but i'll bet it was a marketing hack who coined it.

pc Received on Wed Aug 24 2005 - 03:52:26 CEST

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