From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:3ef96fad.7300076{at}216.144.1.254...
> "Antti Kurenniemi"  wrote in message
> news::
> > You're going to love this one: our current database system's clients
have a
> > busy loop whenever they're waiting on the server, and they yank their
own
> > priority up for that time, so you can't really do anything else with any
> > other app on that computer until the client receives whatever it is
waiting
> > for.
> > ...
>
> It's pathetic, isn't it?

It really is. A couple of times they have asked me if I would be willing to
showcase our system to their potential new customers (we're their biggest
install, as in number of clients and database size, at least in Finland),
and I've said yes but I don't have anything positive to say about this
stuff so maybe you'd better not bring any potential customers here... They
never have, and we don't talk about that anymore 

Beyond that, it really is tiresome to fight this crap on a daily basis.


> It reminds me of that classic programming joke:
>
>   A really great programmer can write Fortran code
>   in *any* language.

 or Cobol... ;-)


> Applied to apps, we see that a stupid programmer can foul up
> any system!

Yeppers :-(



Antti Kurenniemi
(I haven't done any Fortran in a looong time...)

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