Re: Software Vendors

["Nelson C. Smith" <ncsmith@xxxxxxxx>]

Wow, am I impressed, Nina!  You actually remember a twelve year old article
that well?  You are absolutely right.  I found it on page 166, NEWS/34-38,
October, 1987, and you quoted it almost word-for-word.  I bet you were a
whiz on your SAT's.

-----Original Message-----
From: nina jones <ddi@datadesigninc.com>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Thursday, December 02, 1999 10:57 PM
Subject: Re: Software Vendors


>> Nina, can you recall what Mel had to say (or point me to the appropriate
>> article)?
>
>it was in a system3x (no 400 yet) magazine, in october or november of
>1987.  the theme of the magazine was 'the threat from below' about how
>p/c's were making inroads.
>
>there was a letter to the editor from a fellow complaining about every
>package he purchased had bugs, and why did 36 packages have bugs when
>p/c packages didn't (pre windows!)
>
>his answer was on the line of that p/c packages had a market of
>thousands or millions, and the 36 market base was much smaller.
>
>he also said that there was no excuse for shoddy programming, and
>careless errors should be fixed.
>
>but testing proved the existance of bugs, you could not prove that they
>didn't exist.
>
>and our world is not perfect, the mail doesn't always make it on time,
>and airlines are sometimes late, sometimes due to factors beyond our
>control.
>
>i lost that magazine years ago, but that article was etched into my
>brain.
>
>nj
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