I work for a Cathedral company, with expensive proprietary hardware and OS. The company also has to pay Big Bucks for technical prostitues. This is primarily due to the fact that senior IS management does not understand how sharing of resources could improve productivity.
This is the one thing that gives Open Source the advantage. Code gets reused more efficiently. In the proprietary world, programmer productivity is low. This is the real reason that there is such a high demand for programmers.
Companies know how to lay off workers that have redundant functions. But CIO's are lousy about knowing how to consolidate programming tasks.
I agree entirely. Leave XML in the document world. Don't rewrite applications which already work. Use XML for new applications based on documents. Think groupware, think document database applications. How could XML help reorganize a groupware application -- like a news server? Why doesn't someone write a GPL Open Source application which is the equivalent of Lotus Notes using XML?
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I work for a Cathedral company, with expensive proprietary hardware and OS. The company also has to pay Big Bucks for technical prostitues. This is primarily due to the fact that senior IS management does not understand how sharing of resources could improve productivity.
This is the one thing that gives Open Source the advantage. Code gets reused more efficiently. In the proprietary world, programmer productivity is low. This is the real reason that there is such a high demand for programmers.
Companies know how to lay off workers that have redundant functions. But CIO's are lousy about knowing how to consolidate programming tasks.
I agree entirely. Leave XML in the document world.
Don't rewrite applications which already work. Use
XML for new applications based on documents. Think
groupware, think document database applications.
How could XML help reorganize a groupware application -- like a news server? Why doesn't
someone write a GPL Open Source application which
is the equivalent of Lotus Notes using XML?
Forget about configuration files.