Re: Multiplicity, Change and MV
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 04:21:32 GMT
Message-ID: <gnY2g.65038$VV4.1232826_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
DonR 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.
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> I think you have made it quite clear that you think ALL pick
> programmers/users are stupid.
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 Mon Apr 24 2006 - 06:21:32 CEST