Re: EJB versus RPG/COBOL -- JAVA400-L

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On Thursday, March 11, 2004, at 11:13 PM, Jeff Crosby wrote:

Just call me the simplistic cynic.

Not at all. I've been saying that for years. I read in the computer section of the Age newspaper some tosser saying that software was a commodity and that developers should give it away and make money by supporting it.

So, what if I write software that just works and doesn't need support or services. In order to survive I must design complexity and suffering into the product effectively making it so hard to use for the uninitiated that they pay me or some other organisation to install, configure, and support it for them. Now whose business model does that sound like?

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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