Excuse me, sir, but the Ken Olson and Gordon Bell who built the second
largest computer company in the world were engineers. The jerk Palmer, who
wrecked it, was a "business type."
There's a great deal more to it, but big computer companies all became
dinosaurs. Wang, Prime, DG, DEC, Sun, Silicon Graphics, etc etc etc, all
dead and gone. Oh, and Sun.
What really died was the idea of a vertically integrated company providing
hardware, OS, applications, consulting, and support. The industry
specialized into commodity hardware, open source operating systems, and no
support at all.
Engineers without product and business sense. That has never changed.
Marketing without product, possible, is worse.
On Monday, July 28, 2014, Tom Coleman <tcole...@autowares.com> wrote:
>
> DEC is a great example of why technical people should never be allowed to
> have the final say in business decisions. There are others. Anyone else
> besides Jim remember Wang Laboratories?
>
> (I suppose the same could be said for letting the "suits" have the final
> say, but that's an argument for another day.)
>
> Jim makes a good point about JDBC accounting for probably 80+% of modern
> database access. Every young developer knows Java and JDBC, and the
> standard makes it easy for tool developers to support the database.
> (Anyone know of amy JPA implementations for Firebird?)
>
> If it is decided that FB3 needs a new interface, it might make very good
> sense to design to the JDBC standard and work backwards to the C//C++
> interface.
>
> A review of database popularity might help to frame this decision
> realistically:
>
> http://db-engines.com/en/ranking_trend/relational+dbms
>
>
>
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