[Info-vax] Building for Customers, Revenue

[David Froble]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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
>  
> 

Actually, it was the use of idiots, by other idiots, that caused this. 
Four years away and not even thinking of it implies a lack of capability 
to think.