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Thanks.... re: A Very Nice Article, indeed, except.... ~Naomi Deskroterakol 1.Oct.02 04:26 PM a Web browser General 6.0All Platforms
[I>* No one seems (company-wise) to get this very obvious concept.</i>]
Understandable that you say this, but it's not entirely true. I've had
conversations with people in Westford about this. They do get it. It's simply
a matter of the resources being allocated to make it a reality.
That's the really great thing about the approach I'm suggesting. It doesn't
require a massive amount of development resources. A dozen developers at Iris
and a dozen more on an IBM Linux team could probably get this done.
The only real requirement is that someone with the authority to get those
resources grasp the vision. It's a real shame Ray isn't still with the
organization -- he's clearly looking in that direction.
By the way, I think its funny that if IBM *completely* agreed with me, and this
was exactly the strategy they were following, there could be very good reason
for them to make all the moves they've made in the past 18 months, including
dropping Garnet and promoting Websphere integration. It *could* be competitive
misdirection. But I'm honestly not willing to credit them *that* much. :)
* Folks have you ever thought that with the better hardware, software,
etc. we get each year, we (humans) should be moving away from writing line
after line of code? Shouldn't the model be moving more toward the original
Notes model of "design a form & view & you're done"?
When I think about the amount of code I write and debug and debug and debug and
debug (whap - oops sorry) each year, why is it not decreasing?
As ambition increases, so does effort. When I started on the Notes platform
(v2), just building a discussion database was a big deal. Now people simply go
sign up at EZBoard and don't even build an in-house solution. Therefore if
we're going to bother to build something, that thing had better do a lot more
than it used to.
Who commissions e-mail customization anymore? Who wants brochureware web
sites? Who wants hard-coded serial workflow? No one. The complexity of the
request has grown to stay ahead of the generic goals of yesterday, precisely
because those goals are just too easy to accomplish now.
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