Re: Dropping the AS/400 as a Web serving platform

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The other part is that somebody who has taken IIS, Java,
> JSP and SQL in
> college doesn't know the first thing about designing a
> promotions and deals
> database.

I just would like to comment further on Joe's statement
here.  while this is true, most of the time they _shouldn't_
have to design the DB, since it most likely already exists
for most companies (ie non-startup companies).

The problem then is that they don't know how to interface
with the existing data, or what all those "extra fields" in
the file are for.  So, they build their own.

Now, instead of the IIS web programmer having to learn how
to use the existing DB, the senior people are forced to
mirror data from the existing DB into the sorry excuse for a
DB created by the IIS programmer using SQLServer.

I've seen it a thousand times, and every time I say "don't
do it" they do and I'm end up trying to replicate to their
db.  Guess what, they really are missing a lot of important
data (those "extra fields") because they don't understand
the business or why they are there.

Brad
www.bvstools.com