Rob, you aren't comparing apples to apples. I am talking about business
logic which is a single subject matter now spread over two languages and
platforms. I agree that teams are inevitable in the bigger picture, but
again, I am not talking about the big picture. I am talking about one
sliver of pie that now requires two people to address, where in times past
it was EASILY solved by one person.
Just because a software house has gotten used to having BL in both .NET and
RPG doesn't make it right. It just means they don't mind paying additional
salaries and living with double the half-life of information. Or maybe in
some cases they didn't even know a better option was possible like Lukas
Beeler's company approach to modernization.
This topic is interesting because it really demands another knowledge set in
today's software developer - the ability to understand long-term effects of
adopting new software on different platforms and in different languages.
Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com
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Aaron,
I've long ago gotten used to the "team concept". Even before we abandoned
twinax I no longer wired my cables, coworkers did. Honestly, there are
technicians here that are more knowledgeable on how to attach printers than
I am. Could they write a line of CL? No.
A closer analogy is when a new customer is attempting to do FTP with us.
Is it our firewall that is blocking them? Is it the ftp exit point program
I wrote? I can give an educated guess, and could pinpoint it down better
with a comm trace, but still I have to work with our network specialist.
And that is an outside consultant who works four long days, Tuesday through
Friday. And doesn't start until 10 or 10:30 so he can do stuff late at
night when network stuff is minimal.
(Recent incident: We couldn't get to our corporate web site and I was told
to just email him by my boss. So, when he does his late at night tricks and
is not there the next morning, it's a hoot. But he's no kid who hasn't been
weaned yet, and collects .50 caliber weapons, so I don't say much.)
Rob Berendt
midrange.com
