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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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