50% of them will pick the second choice:). My 0.001 cents,
IMO, if everyone uses open-source, companies(esp medium and small sized) can afford to hire a lot of real good programmers to write better products. But a good buddy of mine(Microsoft certified) replies that it's because of the tremendously confusing collection of their technologies, more people are hired. Bah, endless argument! -----Original Message----- From: David Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: July 18, 2003 11:45 AM To: Struts Users Mailing List Subject: RE: [Friday] How far can we let the clients push us? --- "Raible, Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We had the same requirement from our client - and we actually > implemented > it! Using JavaScript and the DOM, we're able to add/delete rows, sort > by > columns, have tabs for different sheets - pretty slick IMO. Of course, > it's > an intranet app, so we require standards-compliant browsers > (http://webstandards.org/upgrade/). > > I think you have to estimate how long it will take to develop (and > maintain) > this, vs. a simpler system. If they're willing to pay you for it - why > not? > If you tell them it'll cost them $500,000 for the online spreadsheet vs. > $100,000 for the simpler version, they'll start to see the light. Hmm, that's a tough choice. OpenOffice for $0 or online spreadsheet for $500,000? I wonder which one they'll pick. David > > HTH, > > Matt > > -----Original Message----- > From: Yansheng Lin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 10:12 AM > To: 'Struts Users Mailing List' > Subject: [Friday] How far can we let the clients push us? > > > > To them, Online spreadsheet data-entry is a reasonable request. They > don't > want > to change their ways of practise, what can we do? They are paying us! > > Darn, life is so hard! > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
