[DUG] Bristol Cars. A Development Model.

[Jeremy Coulter]

Well that's 5c now.....no wonder you want to target customers with open
cheques....you throw your money arround like its not real.....heheehehehehe


Jeremy 

-----Original Message-----
From: delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at ns3.123.co.nz] On
Behalf Of Kyley Harris
Sent: 21 August 2005 20:06
To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
Subject: [DUG] Bristol Cars. A Development Model.

 >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



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