I once worked at a company that sold industry-specific core-business software to deep-pocketed corps who couldn’t / wouldn’t / shouldn’t roll their own.
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Deirdre Saoirse Moenreplied to Paul Cantrell last edited by
@inthehands I want to give an example of this.
Friend of mine is IT guy for a non-software firm that uses a major db vendor and uses another third-party database set of tables, etc. And they have addons from another company.
Neither of these products use boolean column types. So the first set uses "Y" or "N" as a bool, and the second was written in Iceland, so decided to use "J" and "N" instead.
This kind of thing is just trivially awful, but chews up just great wads of time.
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This is always the case when the customer, i.e. the buyer, is not also the user. As in almost all enterprise software, like this library software you mentioned.
The one good thing about smartphones, is that the buyer was mostly also the user, so that bad products fell through the gap of mediocrity.
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