From: Adam Flinton 

Paul Ranson wrote:
> You do have a rather narrow view of what might comprise an application.
>

Really.

> But apart from that if it's not an adequate tool technically it's not going
> to be right commercially or financially.

You'd be surprised. Many many cases where frankly an old scrap of cobol
does things which surprises others given a skillfull developer.

> Politics will cause projects to
> fail, so what's right politically is independent of all else, especially a
> successful result.
>

Pshaaw. Politics is what gets the funding for the project in the first
place. Politics then determines the scope & the timeframe & thus
the deliverables.

Politics then comes into play when the projects pushes at the initial envlope

Adam

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