Re: Design Strategy WAS: High-Profile Advocacy Opportunity:VbulletinForum

Christopher,

> Well, SAP has pretty consistently tried to apply this strategy to
> their R/3 application, which is _not_ a "limited class of web
> applications."

Aha.  The key word there is "suitable".    I've supported some SAP-type
applications, and they are messes of spaghetti code that underperform their
hardware by a factor of 10.  As well as having chronic data integrity
problems that pretty much require an on-staff application expert just to keep
the thing running.

So I find SAP an excellent example of how *not* to write an application,
unless your goal is to maximize your support revenue.

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-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco