RE: Topic number ONE

Astonishingly, our company recently terminated development in Delphi to go
to screen scraping (JWalk).  It seems that "time to market" is more
important than providing functionality.  Of course, this brings up the topic
of "what's the point of Client/Server in the first place?"  Is it
"presentation" (as in GUI) or is it "data exchange" (as in OLE links between
databases) or something else?  It has been my experience that organisations
which haven't answered this question for themselves will fail at their C/S
projects.

Buck Calabro
Billing Concepts Albany, NY
mailto:mcalabro@commsoft.net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: JBurelle@aol.com 
> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 1999 10:25 PM
> To:   JAVA400-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Topic number ONE
> 
> Joe;
> I hate  to throw a kink in the chain here but could you break this down
> even 
> further?
> The only 'goals' I've gotten from the company are:
> a) we want gui interfaces
> b) we want an intranet
> c) we want to do fancy stuff for our customers
> d) say what's this thing called 'XML' (just spent seventy dollars on a
> book)
> e) with drop down lists,and checkboxes you think we can make this
> user-proof
> f) and, oh by the way, can you do all this in your spare time?
> 
> 
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