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RE:  RE: Auto-completion in editors
That's sooo true.  Every time we get a requirement 
for an application, a local tells us we need to 
build tools for the customer so they can build 
the application they require and in some sense, 
where customization for the locale dominates, 
that is a good idea.  But if you have to maintain 
a core for all of these guys, it is a lot of work 
and that is why you have to sell a lot of copies 
to make a buck.  It's like selling sheet music. The 
printing costs alone can make the margins thin. 
If you saw how many configuration options goes 
into a single records management system for 
police agencies, you'd puke.  But... that is 
what sells the dammed thing in a world where 
we don't market shrinkwrap, but saranwrapped 
apps.  We are RFP-driven; not marketing driven.

Yet, XML application languages need a way to 
convey semantics or interoperation predictability 
goes to hell.  We've seen this same problem 
over and over again from the very first GML 
apps forward.  We worked on it in the MID.  We 
got killed by Yet Another Gencoded solution. 
 
As soon as one gets beyond gencoding, this bugger 
rears its ugly head.  Someone eventually hardwires 
to the codes and gets market share.  We can end up 
cooperating ourselves to bankruptcy.  The guy who 
makes the money is the one who watches all the 
candidates, figures out which one has "just enough 
mindshare" and "ride Sally ride!".  It is true 
that the early bird gets the worm but the second 
mouse gets the cheese.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Allen [mailto:joshuaa@m...]

Yeah, someone could say, "I am going to grow corn so I can ride the
markets for cereal *and* cow feed".  Or, "I am going to go into corn
distribution so I have leverage in both directions".  Or, "I am going to
go into retailing so I can get 50% margins on a box of corn flakes".
They are all correct.

A side opinion; I think computer people are the worst in the world for
always going meta.  Even when we have a clear problem to solve (like,
implement an accounting system), we always try to attack the meta
problem and the meta-meta problems first.  I admit that abstraction is a
good way to attack problems, but taken to far it is a way to avoid
solving problems while still looking busy.

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