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RE: Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You

• To: "'Maciejewski, Thomas'" <Thomas.Maciejewski@l...>, Jeff Lowery <jlowery@s...>
• Subject: RE: Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
• From: Jeff Lowery <jlowery@s...>
• Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 11:10:10 -0700
• Cc: "'xml-dev@l...'" <xml-dev@l...>

I think it was Scientific American that had an article a couple years back
about the costs of ensuring that a sizeable hunk of software is bug-free.
The conclusion was that few users would really want to pay that much for
quality. You get what you're willing to pay for (terms of cost and
time-to-market).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maciejewski, Thomas [mailto:Thomas.Maciejewski@l...]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:05 AM
> To: 'Jeff Lowery'
> Cc: 'xml-dev@l...'
> Subject: RE:  Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
> 
> 
> Sometimes you don't want better ... there is a good enough. 
> 
> That is why there are buicks, MacDonald's, and Microsoft ( 
> heh ... just
> kidding no flames please ). 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Lowery [mailto:jlowery@s...]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 2:00 PM
> To: 'Matt Gushee'; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You
> 
> 
> > And the popularity of that moronic mantra "better, faster, cheaper"
> > hasn't helped. "Better" usually loses because it is hard to measure.
> 
> As they say, "Quality is job #1, but schedule comes first."
> 
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