[Info-vax] Building for Customers, Revenue

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <46sjeb-n5u.ln1 at news.chingola.ch>,
	Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
> 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.

And are we supposed to somehow understand that it was the use of C++
that caused this?

bill
 

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