"Arved Sandstrom" <asandstrom@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> Not "getting" data is part of a larger problem, which is forgetting what
> software is actually for. Most end users couldn't care less about how
> their solution is implemented, they just want a useable program.
End-users absolutely do not care about anything except how easily they can
get through the 9-5. They don't own the business and they don't pay it's
bills and they have no investment in it's most valuable (and expensive)
non-tangible asset--namely it's data. The end users' opinions on the
subject of databases is as relevant as the cows' opinions on
cheese-making.
> Useable meaning reliable, not too hard to use, reasonably fast and so
> forth. Not "getting" data is also accompanied by not "getting" user
> interfaces, re****ting requirements, do***entation, error recovery etc.
Not "getting" data means being a fraud and an imposter. No business buys
database applications just to run applications; they buy them to get
accurate information and for no other reason. Not "getting" the other
things you list means delay and awkwardness and you'll surely be in
trouble
if you can't deliver efficiency and speed, but those come second. To
prove
it, propose to a company director that you can make his slow systems twice
as fast but they'll produce undetectable corruptions of the data, and see
if
he goes for it.
Roy
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