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All DB providers are scum

Where were they five or ten years ago? It's just another example of the greed of all these companies. Maybe the headline should've been "All status markets tapped, DB vendors now appeal to normal businessess".

The only reason they're doing this is that they've played out the markets that they consider plums. They could have been doing this a decade ago. If they had, they would have many more customers than they do now, and the smaller customers would have grown big by now (like they like), or died.

What if you're a small (by their standards) business with big data needs, like a collection agency?

You use something that was priced right and could do the job, back then, like Advanced Revelation. Now they want you to port all your code over? HAH!! What if your apps were written before ODBC and what you're using is "non-standard" by today's definition? I THINK the only caveat would be running the app over the internet. Or, you could use Citrix or somesuch to get over that.

One of the problems today is that employers are seeking only candidates with experience in their SPECIFIC environment. If you're 80 - 90% familiar with their environment, that's not good enough. They don't understand that programming is programming, no matter what the language, and that what the instructions are is more important than the language they're written in.

You get a programmer and train them (or let them train themselves) to the new old language, which doesn't take long. You become part of the employment solution this way. How do they think people get started programming?

It's more economical to just keep doing what you've been doing for the last 10 years. What's the advantage of switching? Data import and export have always been easy, if your data is clean and your original data model was even half-way descent, so it's not because of data handling. Yeah, if you go to something that's, say, SQL '92 compliant, you can eliminate a lot of code, and make mods easier in the future, sometimes, but is that why a company is looking at something so big and upheaval-creating?

Sure, there are legitimate reasons to port, but in the end, all restaurants are still Taco Bell.

Posted by: Art Jones   Posted on: 10/20/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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