Re: metalink still unuseable the 2nd day ...

From: Shakespeare <whatsin_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:23:32 +0100
Message-ID: <4afc7cd6$0$22942$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>



joel garry schreef:
> On Nov 11, 11:26 pm, Robert Klemme <shortcut..._at_googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> I prefer
>> simple HTML UI's.  I don't think that you need Flash for a support
>> portal.  I mean, the main purpose is to get at information quickly and
>> not win the next web design award.

>
> Whaaaaaaaattttt? :-)
>
> This is an excellent point. The idea of awards is to promote
> excellence, yet since the excellence as defined by the web design
> professionals varies severely from the excellence as defined by the
> users, = big requirements analysis fail! This is the essence of what
> so many are complaining about (beyond it not working at all, of
> course), yet the metrics Oracle Management uses doesn't measure it as
> far as we can see. Just some lame "Oh we listened and gave you an
> html version."
>
> jg
> --
> _at_home.com is bogus.
> Get out of my sandbox, java! http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/25.83.html#subj16

Reminds me of a customer I work for now. Communications department wants the whole (intranet!) portal replaced by other technology because of some white space caused by Oracle Portal when a portlet is not shown when a user has no access to it.....

Shakespeare Received on Thu Nov 12 2009 - 15:23:32 CST

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