[DUG] Bristol Cars. A Development Model.

[Kyley Harris]

I am just donating my 5c pieces to a good cause before they are taken 
off the market.

Jeremy Coulter wrote:

>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
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>Jeremy 
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>-----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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