Am Dienstag, 18. Juli 2006 20:31 schrieb John Andersen:
On Tuesday 18 July 2006 03:37, Daniel Bauer wrote:
I just sometimes get jealous of those guys that can run to their customers every day, having a lot of income just out of W's bugs. And if something doesn't work as expected, they can always say: "not my fault, it's a W bug" and everybody immediately believs it, even if they screwed it up themselves.
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Your contentions seems to be that if the Medical Billing was done on Linux, the fact that the HCFA 1500 form was redesigned every few years and Medical Diagnostic Codes and procedures change yearly, and congress passes law after law would SUDDENLY DISAPPEAR.
I suggest you are not living in the real world, where systems more complex than a rolodex, and bills have to be paid on time, and new data keeping requirements arise every year.
No, I'm not talking about software enhancements, new developements etc., but about those guys having a support contract with a company. One day e-mail doesn't work, another day word docs have disappeared, excel tables can't be read anymore, after an automatic "update" the printer doesn't like to print, menues and functions in all-day programs have changend and the users don't find them anymore, PC on the lan suddenly don't understand each other, the trash tray has been to small and files were completely deleted without warning... In the early W-days (I was doing a lot of COBOL programming as a side job that time) I bought the Win-3.1 SDK - quite expensive, some 6 diskettes for about 1000 CHF IIRC. After I've learned how to use it, I couldn't use it, because there was a new Win-Version out, incompatible, of course. I decided to use an NCR "kind of unix" and developped there. No system related changes had to be done to the app ever. While some of my friends developed on W. Whenever W came out with a new release they had to apply several changes to their software, because the internal "system interfaces" (excuse my maybe wrong english) changed fundamentally: calls to system parts didn't work anymore, asked for other parameters or produced other results than before. This is the real W-World - all in Caps :-) B.t.w.: I'd really appreciate if bills - especially the ones I make out - would be paid on time in the real world :-) Now, who is talking theory? Daniel -- Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland professional photography: http://www.daniel-bauer.com special interest site: http://www.bauer-nudes.com -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com