"The latter approach is a few orders of magnitude cheaper of course, but unfortunately the bulk of the industry seems set on the former."
I guess it's due to the fact that the IT Industry is dominated by Americans, because as Winston Churchill observed<http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/churchills-dictum-and-henry-paulson/> : "In the long run, Americans will always do the right thing — after exploring all other alternatives." <grin> -- Nick PS I tried to source the quote -- to no avail. Others have tried as well<http://history-and-education.blogspot.com/2008/10/churchill-on-america-and-brief-research.html> . Nick Gall Phone: +1.781.608.5871 AOL IM: Nicholas Gall Yahoo IM: nick_gall_1117 MSN IM: (same as email) Google Talk: (same as email) Email: nick.gall AT-SIGN gmail DOT com Weblog: http://ironick.typepad.com/ironick/ Furl: http://www.furl.net/members/ngall On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Mark Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> So where does this leave us? Well >> if more people took the time to cast their vote (one vote per person >> please) >> we may be able to draw some conclusions from these polls. Without that the >> waters are still a little murky as far as WOA is concerned. > > People's opinions, and whether or not we know them, cannot change the > kind or degree of architectural properties present in the software > systems we build. > > So far, as an industry, we've figured out two ways to answer questions > like "Is the Foo style better for what I need to do?". The hard way > is to actually build the system and see if it exhibits the desired > properties. The easy way is to apply what we've learned of the study > of software architecture over the last 20 year or so, and figure out > what properties the system will have before hand. The latter approach > is a few orders of magnitude cheaper of course, but unfortunately the > bulk of the industry seems set on the former. > > Mark. > >
