[DUG] Bristol Cars. A Development Model.

[Kyley Harris]

 >The Profax/Accredo story reminds me of Bristol making cars, it was 
said that they wouldn't buy in a component for 5 pounds if they could 
 >make it for 20.

I would say that this is actually a compliment in the best way ;) It 
means that you believe your customers should not settle for second best 
just because everyone elses customers have to... Good work.

 >> I've seen 2 Bristols on the road in my life.

Who around here has? I don't hang out for tea and scones with the elite 
and go for a sunday drive in their Bristol before hopping on the private 
cruize liner home... The closest I come to is watching the apprentice 
with Donald Trump. ;) The type of person who spends 200,000 on a watch 
because Rolex is cliche....
If you were a car dealer/ or a software dealer would like to try and 
sell 20 Suzukis to people who are scrimping for funds, or sell one 
decent car to someone who has an open cheque for unique quality....? I 
prefer option 2.

There are other companies around locally who have written their own 
databases ( not me ) and they did it when Microsoft didn't exist and 
oracle was a tiny nothing... Their customers will keep using it when 
Microsoft forces another reinvention of the wheel, because it works.

Perhaps the Profax clients look at everyone elses products and go "Thank 
god I'm not using that ubiquitous shit." perhaps they are even happy to 
pay for a product that works instead of paying to have it get fixed all 
the time.

I use delphi because I like pascal and Delphi did do a good job. I like 
firebird because it is simple light and quick. It never said it was 
oracle competition.. and it kicks ass over DBISAM and other small light 
databases. In fact in its class as a lightweight I would say that is is 
"Best of Breed" apples with apples. Perhaps that pathological M$ hatred 
is bleeding into other areas and the delusion is in hating a company, 
but then writing products for their OS's.

Lastly... Delphi is OO and also non-OO. its each persons choice to use 1 
or both options. and as for encapsulation... Just because delphi has a 
vcl, doesn't mean that its encapsulated, or even written properly, or 
bug free. Being OO does not automatically define encapsulation. If 
someone gives me a hammer with a split in the shaft that cant be glued 
back together its not reinventing the wheel to create a hammer that is 
better for that job..... Sometimes delphi gives you a sledge hammer when 
what you need is a soft mallet. Thats why we are programmers and 
architects. If you can't use your own creativity to decide that 
something is not right then you are basically a jigsaw puzzle maker, or 
a lego builder... If people didn't insist in reinventing things, we 
wouldn't have decent source code, or compilers or OS's. we wouldn't 
event have computers. without developers like Paul and Profax pushing 
the envelope we wouldn't have linux or any of the other things like 
PostgeSQL which is also just another wheel.

that would be my 3c