RE: On large programming teams [RE: A Swedish Idea]

2001-04-23 Thread Frank Eggink
hare of Bill's > market. > > -Original Message- > From: Frank Eggink > To: Orion-Interest > Sent: 4/21/01 7:01 AM > Subject: On large programming teams [RE: A Swedish Idea] > > The following is one of the classic readings on programming at large. 25 > years old an

Re: On large programming teams [RE: A Swedish Idea]

2001-04-23 Thread Noah Nordrum
- Original Message - From: "Frank LaRosa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 11:45 PM Subject: Re: On large programming teams [RE: A Swedish Idea] > Adding more programmers to a product early in

Re: On large programming teams [RE: A Swedish Idea]

2001-04-22 Thread Frank LaRosa
cause this serves to reduce the quality of the programming. - Original Message - From: "Frank Eggink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2001 7:01 AM Subject: On large programming teams [RE: A Swedish

RE: On large programming teams [RE: A Swedish Idea]

2001-04-21 Thread Kemp Randy-W18971
probably the closest, and they don't really have a cutting share of Bill's market. -Original Message- From: Frank Eggink To: Orion-Interest Sent: 4/21/01 7:01 AM Subject: On large programming teams [RE: A Swedish Idea] The following is one of the classic readings on programmin

On large programming teams [RE: A Swedish Idea]

2001-04-21 Thread Frank Eggink
gt; > >I suppose that the country they're from produce the shittiest code of em all > >:) > > > >Johan > >- Original Message - > >From: "Joseph B. Ottinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-20 Thread David Kinnvall
;-) Forgot the funny side of it. It has been a long week. /David - Original Message - From: "Kemp Randy-W18971" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 2:53 PM Subject: RE: A Swedish Idea > Yes, but

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-20 Thread Kemp Randy-W18971
amateur nights. -Original Message- From: David Kinnvall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:32 PM To: Orion-Interest Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea They never get there about as much as this thread in its current shape provides any value whatsoever to Orion users

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-20 Thread Joseph B. Ottinger
Just for the sake of completeness, let's all chip in for a car to see what happens in this circumstance. Maybe we can get rid of ALL of them at once, just to see if Orion goes away THEN. Then, for the sake of yet more completeness, let's try to somehow legally eradicate all of BEA's employees, to

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-20 Thread Paul Kofon
d have gotten off this mailing list. Paul >From: "Frank LaRosa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Orion-Interest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Orion-Interest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea >Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 00:52:23 -0500 > >What'

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Frank LaRosa
To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 4:17 PM Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea > > God forbids, what if one of them got into car accident, would there still be > Orion. >

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Jay Armstrong
t need a manager. Especially two guys that are as obviously >skilled and laser-focussed on their goals as these two. > >See, Joe and Mike? I'm cured!!! > >dedmike > >> -Original Message- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Michael J. Cannon
try at solo stardom? [:^b dedmike > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kemp > Randy-W18971 > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 11:49 AM > To: Orion-Interest > Subject: RE: A Swedish Idea > > > OSS is like

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread BAC10000
God forbids, what if one of them got into car accident, would there still be Orion.

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread David Kinnvall
ril 19, 2001 7:08 PM Subject: RE: A Swedish Idea > Yes, and like many turtles, they never get there. > > Believing in fairy tales is not a good basis for conducting business. The > turtle and rabbit story is a way to tell average children 'yes, you might > be stupid and slow, b

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Michael J. Cannon
inal Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jay Armstrong > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 10:17 AM > To: Orion-Interest > Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea > > > The groomsmen at my wedding were named Schotanus, Schloss and Schnakenberg > -

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Hani Suleiman
--Original Message- > From: Hani Suleiman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 10:03 AM > To: Orion-Interest > Subject: RE: A Swedish Idea > > > > Unlike all those OSS products huh. > > > On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Kemp Randy-W18971 wrote: >

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Kemp Randy-W18971
Bill company code so much, as their practice of releasing alpha or beta quality products as production quality. > > -Original Message- > From: Jay Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 8:06 AM > To: Orion-Interest > Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea &

Re: A Swedish Idea (an aside)

2001-04-19 Thread Jay Armstrong
>Johan >> >- Original Message - >> >From: "Joseph B. Ottinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:20 PM >> >Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea >>

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Jay Armstrong
The groomsmen at my wedding were named Schotanus, Schloss and Schnakenberg -- no kidding -- if they all lived in the same city, they'd be on the same page in the phonebook. So, bring on the Germanic hordes! Now try to stay focused: Randy's idea was whether or not MySQL and Orion should talk abou

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Hani Suleiman
e of releasing alpha or beta quality products as production >quality. > > -Original Message- > From: Jay Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 8:06 AM > To: Orion-Interest > Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea > > > Generally, I ag

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Kemp Randy-W18971
From: Jay Armstrong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 8:06 AM To: Orion-Interest Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea Generally, I agree with the comment about Micro$oft quality of code, though I've seen some pretty horrible code from outside the US, too. :) Bill Gates may b

Re: A Swedish Idea (an aside)

2001-04-19 Thread Joseph B. Ottinger
're from produce the shittiest code of em all > >:) > > > >Johan > >- Original Message - > >From: "Joseph B. Ottinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Wednesday, April 18,

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Jay Armstrong
uot;Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:20 PM >Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea > > >> Personally, I'm becoming more and more convinced that not only is Sweden >> full of lousy programmers, but they're all lousy in congruent wa

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Joseph B. Ottinger
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 05:04:48PM -0600, Jay Armstrong wrote: > Fair enough, Mike, but my bottom line was: Why not ... address that issue > (having MySQL and Orion folks talk to each other) directly? Why? > Randy had a good thought -- the Thought Police should quit stomping on it. > > The issu

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Kemp Randy-W18971
ssage- From: Hani Suleiman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:24 PM To: Orion-Interest Subject: RE: A Swedish Idea Argh, I really did try hard not to respond, but I can resist no longer... 'it's good enough for NASA' means nothing, nor is it relevant. Win9

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Johan Fredriksson
y, April 18, 2001 4:20 PM Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea > Personally, I'm becoming more and more convinced that not only is Sweden > full of lousy programmers, but they're all lousy in congruent ways just to > make the rest of the world's jobs harder. > > I say we all s

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-19 Thread Michael J. Cannon
eforge.net/projects/hsqldb web http://hsqldb.sourceforge.net dedmike > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Neville > Burnell > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 10:10 PM > To: Orion-Interest > Subject: RE: A Sw

(RE: A Swedish Idea) - Interbase licence

2001-04-18 Thread Randahl Fink Isaksen
Michael J. Cannon wrote: Interbase is not 'free.' Well, Michael, I already made a post of the parts in the Interbase licence that states that the database product is free. I think I read the licence very carefully, and as far as I can see, the licence is indeed free. The licence includes sentenc

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Neville Burnell
Subject: RE: A Swedish Idea hmmm...autoupdate...Magnus, Carl? what do we need to include in hsqldb to prevent this? (Credit to you Stan and whoever else contributes)... dedmike > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stan

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Michael J. Cannon
8, 2001 3:00 PM > To: Orion-Interest > Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea > > > > At first a zillion people picked up the continued development of > HypersonicSQL (because it's *awesome* for development, but anyway... > SourceForge was flooded with clones, but I believe that

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Jay Armstrong
I would guess that it would be MySQL making the majority (all?) of the changes to support J2EE platforms, not just Orion. To Orion, it's just another storage mechanism. As for "why bother?". Well, that's what "open" software is all about. Open minds, open discussions, open ideas, etc, etc. Som

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Tim Endres
> For developers looking to seriously develop commercial-class or commercial > software and resell it, licenses are EVERYTHING, and the specific wording is > VERY IMPORTANT if you wish to have a business that appeals to the corporate > types or serious commercial customers (not to mention one that

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Hani Suleiman
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Jay Armstrong wrote: > > But, let's say it doesn't support transactions. What's wrong with starting > a dialog? > Why bother? So the people who bleat about mySQL all the time are happier? Frankly I'd rather the Orion team concentrate on functionality and J2EE implementat

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Michael J. Cannon
dmike > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Hani Suleiman > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 4:24 PM > To: Orion-Interest > Subject: RE: A Swedish Idea > > > Argh, I really did try hard not to respond, but I can

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Michael J. Cannon
Ottinger > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 1:56 PM > To: Orion-Interest > Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea > > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 06:34:09PM +0100, William Jones wrote: > > Would some people please just grow up. > > I agree! (Wait, am I included?) > > > If you do

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Jay Armstrong
a good modeling, prototype database. For the record, I use both mysql (for testing and prototyping) and Oracle 8I (for the real stuff). And everyone can learn from them in how to write good documentation. >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Dan North [mailto:[EMAIL PROTE

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Michael J. Cannon
nore the licensing issue and their IP at their peril! Michael J. Cannon Project Manager, COO - hsqldb.org > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan North > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 2:08 PM > To: Orion-Interest > Sub

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Jay Armstrong
OTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jay Armstrong >> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 11:35 AM >> To: Orion-Interest >> Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea >> >> >> C'mon -- lighten up a little on Randy. This is not an issue for every >> little country with an inferio

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Hani Suleiman
e real stuff). And everyone can learn from them in >how to write good documentation. > > -Original Message- > From: Dan North [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 2:08 PM > To: Orion-Interest > Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea > > > Ok, I'll b

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Kemp Randy-W18971
write good documentation. -Original Message- From: Dan North [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 2:08 PM To: Orion-Interest Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea Ok, I'll bite. Orion is not an open source product and probably never will be. The fact that it is fre

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Mike Sick
cated that our very own GW.   Please read and learn: http://www.theonion.com/onion3713/bush_regales_guests.html   Mike - Original Message - From: Michael A Third To: Orion-Interest Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 3:51 PM Subject: RE: A Swedish Idea I think every

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Michael J. Cannon
ger, COO - hsqldb.org > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jay Armstrong > Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 11:35 AM > To: Orion-Interest > Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea > > > C'mon -- lighten up a little on Randy

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Stan Ng
ent matter... - Original Message - From: "Jay Armstrong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 9:35 AM Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea > Given that HypersonicSQL is currently not being maintained (is it?),

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Michael A Third
EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of William JonesSent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 1:34 PMTo: Orion-InterestSubject: Re: A Swedish Idea Would some people please just grow up.    If you don't want to use Orion then that is your decision.  Vote with

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Dan North
Ok, I'll bite. Orion is not an open source product and probably never will be. The fact that it is free for development purposes and remarkably inexpensive for deployment shouldn't alter your perception of (a) the ownership and proprietary nature of the code, or (b) the quality of the product

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Joseph B. Ottinger
ibly the word's meaning (I know only us college-eddicated peoples know what it meanses), then please apply said meaning to nearly everything in this thread. Thanks! :) > - Original Message - > From: "Joseph B. Ottinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To:

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread William Jones
rs list in the ACM International Programming Contest (c.f. http://acm.baylor.edu/past/default.htm)   - Original Message - From: "Joseph B. Ottinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Orion-Interest" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 3:20 PM Sub

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Kemp Randy-W18971
I said it may be a dumb idea. -Original Message- From: Hani Suleiman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 9:18 AM To: Orion-Interest Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea Why?!?! I have an idea, why don't IBM and BEA team up and release...logicsphere! After all, th

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Jay Armstrong
C'mon -- lighten up a little on Randy. This is not an issue for every little country with an inferiority complex to get hot about. The possible relationship is based not only on the physical geography, but also on the "openness" of the products (MySQL is completely open, while Orion is free for

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Joseph B. Ottinger
On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:54:02AM -0400, Kemp Randy-W18971 wrote: > I'm from the USA, near Chicago, Il. What countries lead in quality of code? > I would like to know. No matter what country the product is produced in, The best country in terms of code/quality ratio is Cameroon. > you might fi

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Hani Suleiman
other facets, such as > documentation, marketing, and support. And even superman is part of a team > called the Justice League, since he can't solve everything by himself. > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, Ap

RE: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Kemp Randy-W18971
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2001 9:20 AM To: Orion-Interest Subject: Re: A Swedish Idea Personally, I'm becoming more and more convinced that not only is Sweden full of lousy programmers, but they're all lousy in congruent ways just to make the rest of the world'

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Robert Krueger
am I the only one on this list considering this useless discussion spam? karl and magnus are grownups making their own decisions and you don't actually believe repeating stuff that has been discussed on this list over and over again, inspires them? please contribute to getting the technical i

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Joseph B. Ottinger
Personally, I'm becoming more and more convinced that not only is Sweden full of lousy programmers, but they're all lousy in congruent ways just to make the rest of the world's jobs harder. I say we all start using Bavarian products, if only because Bavarian names seem to have a better vowel/cons

Re: A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Hani Suleiman
Why?!?! I have an idea, why don't IBM and BEA team up and release...logicsphere! After all, they're both US companies... On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Kemp Randy-W18971 wrote: > Now this may be a dumb idea, and I am just thinking up brainstorms to promote Orion, >but it occurred to me that both Mysql a

A Swedish Idea

2001-04-18 Thread Kemp Randy-W18971
Now this may be a dumb idea, and I am just thinking up brainstorms to promote Orion, but it occurred to me that both Mysql and Orion are in Sweden. Now I don't know how big Sweden is, but perhaps a meeting between the two teams could find ways to mutually promote or bridge the two products. J