If Coca Cola can run their own custom software in a distribution center, what's to stop any other company in the world?
Cost. Custom in house software is very expensive compared to something off the shelf for a small business. Coca Cola probably has paid millions of dollars in developer costs for custom software. Their developers probably average over $50,000/year so if it takes 1 developer year to write the software that is a $50,000 piece of software. But wait, a company Coca Cola's size won't just send a developer on their merry way to write software for them, they need a project manager, testers, and many meetings to determine how that software should work. They need people in house to provide first level support for the software. Each year they'll find X new features they want. Keeping all of those people on staff to maintain custom software is not cheap.
It isn't like *nix lacks database programs, or anything else. Find something that comes close to what you need, have your IT staff modify to suit your needs, and run with it. No more licensing fees, no more forced upgrades, nada.
Even among some of the most ardent supports of Open Source you'll find people that will tell you, your business may hit a point where it needs Oracle or DB2 or a TerraData system to support what you are doing.
Maybe 10 minutes of coding time, but don't forget all the time to develop a project plan, agree to a timetable (with all affected departments in the government), write the requirements, have the stakeholder approve the requirements (this will take at least a week with more than one meeting), write the technical specification for the change, design a test plan, write your unit tests (if they don't already exist), make the code change, deploy the code to a test environment, fix any bugs that may come up that are production bugs (but the testers insist they need to be fixed for this release), get sign off from the stakeholder and deploy to a production environment.
10 minutes my ass. That's just as bad as you assuming it would take 6 months of coding work to make the change in COBOL.
I've worked with plenty of DBAs who refuse to use an auto-increment field as the primary key. It makes migration between databases quite difficult when you don't have admin privileges and need to move data from production to a test environment. You can't turn off the default value for the field and then your foreign key entries don't match the PK on the other table. Its more of a hassle than a help in some cases.
Be willing to code COBOL. That's how I got my job. I took one course in COBOL and stuck it on my resume. I put in about 2 years then transferred to a different programming team in the company that is not a COBOL team.
Four months after Ford Chairman Henry Ford II fired Iacocca as president of Ford in July 1978, he took up with Chrysler and promptly figured out the automaker was in big trouble. He fired executives, bargained with the United Auto Workers union to lower salaries and benefits for hourly workers, lowered his own salary to a dollar a year, and secured loans from the federal government to bail out the company.
I just took a job after graduating at the end of July for 42600. I lowballed at 32000 when I interviewed because I knew I could still live comfortably in Madison, WI on that. They gave me the low end of the salary range I am sure, but it doesn't bother me too much, I really don't feel like I learned a lot in college.
I am/will be doing COBOL/CICS/Data Warehouse development and expect my salary to rise accordingly as all the guys who are there now plan to retire in 5-7 years.
When I had this problem, what I told my torrent junkie roomates was, "If I ever want to play a game and I have a bad ping I will unplug your connection, no questions asked. You need to take some responsibility for your bandwidth." He promptly went out and found Net Limiter to run on his desktop (god forbid anything stops his downloads) and we agreed that any time after 1:30 am or so was wide open for bandwidth whoring. Net Limiter allowed him to schedule the changes in bandwidth so he didn't have to stay up late to up his bandwidth manually.
Finally, I have watched many DVD's and was very disappointed with a most of the extra features. All they were was people talking about scenes and cut scenes. Some of them had nothing at all. This is one I would definatley buy.
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Cost. Custom in house software is very expensive compared to something off the shelf for a small business. Coca Cola probably has paid millions of dollars in developer costs for custom software. Their developers probably average over $50,000/year so if it takes 1 developer year to write the software that is a $50,000 piece of software. But wait, a company Coca Cola's size won't just send a developer on their merry way to write software for them, they need a project manager, testers, and many meetings to determine how that software should work. They need people in house to provide first level support for the software. Each year they'll find X new features they want. Keeping all of those people on staff to maintain custom software is not cheap.
Even among some of the most ardent supports of Open Source you'll find people that will tell you, your business may hit a point where it needs Oracle or DB2 or a TerraData system to support what you are doing.
A 10 minute change? That is laughable estimate.
Maybe 10 minutes of coding time, but don't forget all the time to develop a project plan, agree to a timetable (with all affected departments in the government), write the requirements, have the stakeholder approve the requirements (this will take at least a week with more than one meeting), write the technical specification for the change, design a test plan, write your unit tests (if they don't already exist), make the code change, deploy the code to a test environment, fix any bugs that may come up that are production bugs (but the testers insist they need to be fixed for this release), get sign off from the stakeholder and deploy to a production environment.
10 minutes my ass. That's just as bad as you assuming it would take 6 months of coding work to make the change in COBOL.
I've worked with plenty of DBAs who refuse to use an auto-increment field as the primary key. It makes migration between databases quite difficult when you don't have admin privileges and need to move data from production to a test environment. You can't turn off the default value for the field and then your foreign key entries don't match the PK on the other table. Its more of a hassle than a help in some cases.
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Be willing to code COBOL. That's how I got my job. I took one course in COBOL and stuck it on my resume. I put in about 2 years then transferred to a different programming team in the company that is not a COBOL team.
Would that be Senator Russ Feingold?
We just finished our XP upgrades last month. I was on 2000 until mid January
Steve stole the idea it isn't his either.......
Four months after Ford Chairman Henry Ford II fired Iacocca as president of Ford in July 1978, he took up with Chrysler and promptly figured out the automaker was in big trouble. He fired executives, bargained with the United Auto Workers union to lower salaries and benefits for hourly workers, lowered his own salary to a dollar a year, and secured loans from the federal government to bail out the company.
I am/will be doing COBOL/CICS/Data Warehouse development and expect my salary to rise accordingly as all the guys who are there now plan to retire in 5-7 years.
-Steve
When I had this problem, what I told my torrent junkie roomates was, "If I ever want to play a game and I have a bad ping I will unplug your connection, no questions asked. You need to take some responsibility for your bandwidth." He promptly went out and found Net Limiter to run on his desktop (god forbid anything stops his downloads) and we agreed that any time after 1:30 am or so was wide open for bandwidth whoring. Net Limiter allowed him to schedule the changes in bandwidth so he didn't have to stay up late to up his bandwidth manually.
-Steve
I get my DSL for free 768/768 for 6 Months. I work for them. Then after that it is only ~$20/month. The 768/768 is a $10 upgrade from standard DSL.
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It is blue because it is in the developers section.
I was at Wal-Mart the other day and saw a Phillips portable CD player that claimed to play CD-RW and MP3 cd's. Anyone else seen this?
Finally, I have watched many DVD's and was very disappointed with a most of the extra features. All they were was people talking about scenes and cut scenes. Some of them had nothing at all. This is one I would definatley buy.