On 18/03/07, Bill Marriott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd wager that a first-year comp sci undergraduate with no prior knowledge of xTalk could be sat down in front of the typical Revolution stack and make any updates required in the time it took for the other three routes to get past the research/requirements phase. That's the great strength of our beloved platform.
True. In my experience truth has little to do with this though :( The problem is that human beings and institutional structures get in the way of that. The real world logic goes to often like this: 1) A university department without a dedicated in house coder defers to the IT Department for advice and support. 2) The IT department unless it has a Rev convert will recommend a commercial solution if it does not have available software engineers (most common), or if it does either industry standard (Java / Micorsoft) or open source solutions. 3) The University department is reliant on the rubber stamp from the IT Department to gain the required project funding The relative merits of the technology have little to do with the decision - again the human factors are more important. Remove a student or department from this catch-22 and they would often choose Rev - otherwise they go for an industry standard or open source solution for "career" or "ideological" reasons. _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
