Re: Multiplicity, Change and MV

DonR wrote:

> Bob Badour wrote:
>

>>Jan Hidders wrote:
>>
>>
>>>B Faux wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>[...] Just Google the recent experience of Reynolds and
>>>>Reynolds in their attempt to shift their product from an MV implementation
>>>>to an SQL implementation (I believe they flushed more than 60 million
>>>>dollars down the drain with zero deliverable to show for it.)
>>>
>>>
>>>Unless you can tell us with certainty what went wrong in this case this
>>>doesn't even qualify as anecdotal evidence. For all we know the problem
>>>was that the MV product they used let's you get away with so much
>>>sloppy data modelling that at this time all hope of turning it into a
>>>well-structured one was lost.
>>>
>>>-- Jan Hidders
>>
>>Not to mention the high probability they employed people whose cognitive
>>abilities were long ago destroyed by Pick use in the implementation.

Given that the people online who are considered the best and the brightest experts from among the pick crowd are universally stupid, I extrapolated from there. Oh, that, and the fact one would have to be stupid to think the product is any good.

One company I'm very
> fimilar with is a wholesale & retail auto parts company. They have
> about 100 stores and an IT staff of two, one of them maintains the Pick
> system, the other one maintains PC's and the network. If they had a SQL
> system, how many RM/SQL people would be needed for that size company?

None. I have worked on applications with embedded SQL databases that required no on-site dba.

> How many Pick projects have you worked on?

None, thankfully. My brain remains functional. For instance, I can see, understand and articulate why Pick is such a horribe product. People whose brains have not been damaged can actually follow the logic.

> Cheers,
> Don
> Proud to be a Pick programmer.

Yes, I have noticed that stupidity and pride go hand-in-hand. Received on Sun Apr 23 2006 - 23:21:32 CDT