Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:09:17 +0100 From: Adam J Richardson <fatman.uk@gmail.com> To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Cc: Robert C Wittig <wittig.robert@sbcglobal.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Convince me, please! Message-ID: <46BC556D.8020709@crackmonkey.us> In-Reply-To: <20070810094021.U76834@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <080920071232.28864.46BB09770001C036000070C0220075033008099A0E0B0B0703D20D010D@comcast.net> <200708092234.52861.bastill@adam.com.au> <46BB458E.30408@sbcglobal.net> <20070810094021.U76834@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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Hi Wojciech, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > and about DOS apps - few small companies are still using our 18-year old > (so really mature ;) DOS apps. when asked if they like me to write new > unix version (+lots of adventages here, remote sessions etc.) then don't. > they just don't like to pay anymore because this 18-year program JUST > WORKS. That reminds me of my last job. It's a big multinational company [let's call it Torus, for no particular reason] but knows almost nothing about computing. They're using some old database software from 1000000000000 years BC. There's no security on it at all. I was able to use M$ Excel to peek inside it at the data. Unfortunately when I did that I locked absolutely everyone in the company out of the database at the same time. Heh. There's an example of a program that's old and sucks. Adam J Richardson
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