That is not entirely correct. SAP DB is based on what was eventually called ADABAS D, which was a product bought by Software AG and rebranded. The source for this product was the base for SAP DB but it was never a version of ADABAS C.
I don't know all of the details but SAP products include the licenses for the database (selected by the customer). Until recently there was no price difference between selecting Oracle, DB2, or SAP DB. Anything having to compete with DB2 & Oracle with costs being equal is facing quite a challenge.
the only databases which would scale to what we wanted with no problems and serious speed problems were MSSQL and Oracle
The only databases out of the ones you evaluated. Informix, IRI express, DB2, Sagent, Sybase, Red Brick, SAS, ShowCase, or WhiteLight all would be likely to be up to the task. Ok sure some go a bit far into data warehousing & OLAP but all are high end alternatives.
That said IBM or Oracle has bought out almost all of them by now.
How do you argue with this kind of rhetoric, especially when it's being spread directly by government officials to corporate leaders?
Take the BOFH approach. Begin with laughter, complete with big rolling belly chuckles. Smile knowingly and very slowly explain your 'arguments' in simple words a nine year old could understand. Nine times of out of ten, the tone alone will change the minds of the technicaly challenged.
For those who persist, inform them you will be willing to flash the bios on their kitchen appliances for a large consulting fee. After all they wouldn't want those horrid hackers setting their house on fire with their own toaster or shutting off their AC in the middle of a heat wave. For the truly clueless, tell them their digital cameras, computer microphones, and web cams are spying on them but it is much harder to remove the 'infestation' after it occurs. While removing the 'infestation', install X10 devices and toy with them. Charge one final fee, take the X10 gear home, laugh at them again. Repeat as needed.
What if someone gets angry and decides to fork the project?
If you use the GPL, accept that a fork is possible. If that is not acceptable to you, don't use the GPL. While it doesn't happen to everyone, you could easily have the same fate as David Norman. It hardly takes an angry person.
Excellent suggestion but... Considering the poster is too lazy to do even a basic search, you might want to give a link to an indroductory essay and the category itself over at AllMusic. Or perhaps you just meant the book itself...
Talk about a story full of typos and statements to mock.
Frustrated artists with nose rings and black turtlenecks should not be allowed to turn a company's Web site into a piece of experimental non-performance art.
Damn it. All those unemployed web weenies in freak bars will be mouching beers even longer if this book takes off.
...it's important to learn -- and learn quickly -- that sexier is not always better.
Sounds like pointy haired bosses and geeks share this thought. Suckers.
Could you imagine how annoying the world would be if retail clothing chains like The Gap put invisible trip-wires in front of their clothing racks, so that whenever you reached for a pair of khakis you crashed to the ground?
Considering I wouldn't be caught dead in most of the Gap's clothes, it sounds highly amusing.
It means that you are paying for support on one particular server. If they ship you updates you can install them on multiple machines but they will only support the one with a United Linux maintanence contract.
If this means that they are going to ramp out the quality of tech support to Unix vendor levels, this could be a good thing. Enterprise customers expect and pay through the nose for 24X7 support. If they do it right it could very well take off.
Drawing on your experience and what you consider the best advice you have received, how would you go about getting where you are today if you could do it over again? What motivates you to do the things you do? What would you do differently? What advice would you have for someone with a Bachelors degree in a non-technical field but an associates in computer programming and six years of business experience? In short, what to you credit as the secret of your success and how would you advise others?
I tend to borrow Weinburg books from the library (corporate or public) myself. Now if I happen to find them at a discount book seller, watch out I am stocking up. {;
Cheap commodity hardware, system stability, numerous applications, feature packed applications, support for the latest hardware and software, enterprise level support, cheap.
Software isn't "bad". Charles C. Mann just wants everything at fire sale prices and whines when he doesn't get it.
I took the 'I'll believe it when I see it' approach and haven't bought the game yet. If someone does not ship a CD with the binaries, I probably won't bother.
I don't really see how the parent post is flamebait.
While I don't agree with the logic, I understand it.
BoundsChecker works with C++ & Delphi, Insure++ with C/C++, Purify is yet again C/C++. Translated in a round about kind of way the original poster is asking "How can I get bounds checking for C++ with free software?". The response marked flamebait could be translated as 'use LISP' which easily could be considered flambait for a C++ developer with a bloodlust for language holy wars.
I wasn't making reference to Jera. I was referring to this question in the FAQ.
What does this have to do with Windows XP? Absolutely nothing. In February 2001, Microsoft announced that the next release of their consumer Windows operating system would be called "Windows XP". The use of "XP" as shorthand for Extreme Programming predates Microsoft's use of "XP" by 2-3 years.
I dont understand why people give two different things (Extreme Programming...whatever the hell that is) and (windows) XP the same name
It's simple. A certain big company knew that a backwater software development methodology would never cause too much confusion for the consumer after their marketing goons kicked into gear.
Accepting a counter offer, particularly in a large company, is a highly political game. I would suggest that if you had a handle on the politics of your organization you would not be asking on Slashdot. You would already know what to do. For this reason alone, I would suggest you move on and forget about it.
On the other hand at my current employer or my previous employer I would have had no problem accepting a counter offer. In both places I have seen other people accept them and for the most part it was without any significant consequences. That said all of them were contractors who could play office politics well.
Look around your organization for context. You should be able to figure out if any managers you are close to think it would be a good idea by the subtle ways they act. If they are saying "we're gong to miss you around here" after the counter offer has been made, it's a big hint. Try to find out if anyone else, who is not managment, has done what you are thinking about and see if they will talk to you about it. Make sure you are somplace where no one will hear you and that you are talking to someone who can be discrete. You don't want this going around the water cooler.
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That is not entirely correct. SAP DB is based on what was eventually called ADABAS D, which was a product bought by Software AG and rebranded. The source for this product was the base for SAP DB but it was never a version of ADABAS C.
I don't know all of the details but SAP products include the licenses for the database (selected by the customer). Until recently there was no price difference between selecting Oracle, DB2, or SAP DB. Anything having to compete with DB2 & Oracle with costs being equal is facing quite a challenge.
Robocode. Yeah it takes "work" but nothing finer for a geek game. A modern classic. ;
the only databases which would scale to what we wanted with no problems and serious speed problems were MSSQL and Oracle
The only databases out of the ones you evaluated. Informix, IRI express, DB2, Sagent, Sybase, Red Brick, SAS, ShowCase, or WhiteLight all would be likely to be up to the task. Ok sure some go a bit far into data warehousing & OLAP but all are high end alternatives.
That said IBM or Oracle has bought out almost all of them by now.
How do you argue with this kind of rhetoric, especially when it's being spread directly by government officials to corporate leaders?
Take the BOFH approach. Begin with laughter, complete with big rolling belly chuckles. Smile knowingly and very slowly explain your 'arguments' in simple words a nine year old could understand. Nine times of out of ten, the tone alone will change the minds of the technicaly challenged.
For those who persist, inform them you will be willing to flash the bios on their kitchen appliances for a large consulting fee. After all they wouldn't want those horrid hackers setting their house on fire with their own toaster or shutting off their AC in the middle of a heat wave. For the truly clueless, tell them their digital cameras, computer microphones, and web cams are spying on them but it is much harder to remove the 'infestation' after it occurs. While removing the 'infestation', install X10 devices and toy with them. Charge one final fee, take the X10 gear home, laugh at them again. Repeat as needed.
What if someone gets angry and decides to fork the project?
If you use the GPL, accept that a fork is possible. If that is not acceptable to you, don't use the GPL. While it doesn't happen to everyone, you could easily have the same fate as David Norman. It hardly takes an angry person.
Informix documentation remains amazing, despite the IBM buy out. IBM hasn't affected the quality at all.
Hmm...sadly the link doesn't seem to come up. I wonder how it compares to RoboCode.
I suspect you mean hear, hear.
Excellent suggestion but... Considering the poster is too lazy to do even a basic search, you might want to give a link to an indroductory essay and the category itself over at AllMusic. Or perhaps you just meant the book itself...
Hi, remember me? I'm not married, I don't have any kids, and I'd blow your head off if someone paid me enough.
-- Martin Blank
It's like claiming you should be allowed to have 28 disciples, three Jesus Christs and a kangaroo in a painting of the Last Supper.
Why the hell not? It's a painting. That said, your first sentance actually makes sense.
Talk about a story full of typos and statements to mock.
...it's important to learn -- and learn quickly -- that sexier is not always better.
Frustrated artists with nose rings and black turtlenecks should not be allowed to turn a company's Web site into a piece of experimental non-performance art.
Damn it. All those unemployed web weenies in freak bars will be mouching beers even longer if this book takes off.
Sounds like pointy haired bosses and geeks share this thought. Suckers.
Could you imagine how annoying the world would be if retail clothing chains like The Gap put invisible trip-wires in front of their clothing racks, so that whenever you reached for a pair of khakis you crashed to the ground?
Considering I wouldn't be caught dead in most of the Gap's clothes, it sounds highly amusing.
What is that supposed to mean?
It means that you are paying for support on one particular server. If they ship you updates you can install them on multiple machines but they will only support the one with a United Linux maintanence contract.
If this means that they are going to ramp out the quality of tech support to Unix vendor levels, this could be a good thing. Enterprise customers expect and pay through the nose for 24X7 support. If they do it right it could very well take off.
Drawing on your experience and what you consider the best advice you have received, how would you go about getting where you are today if you could do it over again? What motivates you to do the things you do? What would you do differently? What advice would you have for someone with a Bachelors degree in a non-technical field but an associates in computer programming and six years of business experience? In short, what to you credit as the secret of your success and how would you advise others?
No worries.
I tend to borrow Weinburg books from the library (corporate or public) myself. Now if I happen to find them at a discount book seller, watch out I am stocking up. {;
Buy this book, Handbook of Walthroughs, Inspections, and Technical Reviews by Daniel Freedman and Gerald Weinberg.
Cheap commodity hardware, system stability, numerous applications, feature packed applications, support for the latest hardware and software, enterprise level support, cheap.
Software isn't "bad". Charles C. Mann just wants everything at fire sale prices and whines when he doesn't get it.
Damn. Damn. Damn.
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I took the 'I'll believe it when I see it' approach and haven't bought the game yet. If someone does not ship a CD with the binaries, I probably won't bother.
I still hold out the irrational hope that the Linux masses will convince Infogames to include the Linux client on the Mac boxed set. They take suggestions for products here, maybe some nice emails asking for it will help..
I know it's a snowballs chance but it would be groovy.
I don't really see how the parent post is flamebait.
While I don't agree with the logic, I understand it.
BoundsChecker works with C++ & Delphi, Insure++ with C/C++, Purify is yet again C/C++. Translated in a round about kind of way the original poster is asking "How can I get bounds checking for C++ with free software?". The response marked flamebait could be translated as 'use LISP' which easily could be considered flambait for a C++ developer with a bloodlust for language holy wars.
I wasn't making reference to Jera. I was referring to this question in the FAQ.
Think before you speak next time, son!
You might want to take your own advice pappy.
For some odd reason, this plane reminds of these lyrics: but not the song. I just don't buy that whole it has to be sleek to be cool jive.
I dont understand why people give two different things (Extreme Programming...whatever the hell that is) and (windows) XP the same name
It's simple. A certain big company knew that a backwater software development methodology would never cause too much confusion for the consumer after their marketing goons kicked into gear.
Accepting a counter offer, particularly in a large company, is a highly political game. I would suggest that if you had a handle on the politics of your organization you would not be asking on Slashdot. You would already know what to do. For this reason alone, I would suggest you move on and forget about it.
On the other hand at my current employer or my previous employer I would have had no problem accepting a counter offer. In both places I have seen other people accept them and for the most part it was without any significant consequences. That said all of them were contractors who could play office politics well.
Look around your organization for context. You should be able to figure out if any managers you are close to think it would be a good idea by the subtle ways they act. If they are saying "we're gong to miss you around here" after the counter offer has been made, it's a big hint. Try to find out if anyone else, who is not managment, has done what you are thinking about and see if they will talk to you about it. Make sure you are somplace where no one will hear you and that you are talking to someone who can be discrete. You don't want this going around the water cooler.
YMMV. Good luck.