[Info-vax] Building for Customers, Revenue

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-09-15, Shark8 <OneWingedShark at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/15/2014 6:24 AM, koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org (Bob Koehler) 
> wrote:
>>     I have never used VMS exclusively for desktop stuff.
>>
>>     The majority of my VMS work is desktop stuff, and I use it whenever
>>     possible, which means whenever my customer doesn't demand something
>>     else.
>>
>>     I'd love to do all my desktop stuff on VMS again.
>>
>
> Customer demands can be a funny thing; most of the time they really 
> don't care about the implementation so long as it works and works as 
> intended [as opposed to directed, but that is another rant] -- yet, it 
> is not entirely uncommon that the client demand something like C# or 
> Java [w/o reason].

Back in the mid-90s a relative in sales management was telling me about
the system he was tasked to specify and implement for a 1400 person sales
force.  When I asked what development tools were being used his answer was

     "C++ of course"

It was the "of course" that rankled with me.  No hint of an evaluation of
alternate tools.

P.S. I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when a few years later he told
me that the shiny new system developed circa 1996 wasn't Y2K compliant.

-- 
People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know
we don't                                           -- Bjarne Stroustrup