On 23 Jan 2002, at 16:49, Paul Beach wrote:

> > Why do you say that??
>
> At the risk of repeating myself....
>
> 1. The work was outsourced to a 3rd party company, and relied on
> massive specs for design and implentation (so much for RAD) 2. The
> code was written by a novice C programmer trying to learn Delphi 3.
> The project wasn't managed as well as it could have been. 4. After the
> code was delivered by the third party company, an internal engineer
> sepnt 6 months on it just trying to get it to work, and look like it
> was a valid tool. Its not a part of his life that he likes to
> remember. 4. Some parts of the source code are now missing. 5. We
> (ISC) paid far too much money for what was(n't) delivered.
>
> Based on this, one of the things that the to be ISC open source spin
> off was investigating was how fast and how far we could dump IBConsole
> and replace it with another, better tool.
>

Anyone interested in this kind of discussion, about developing front
end tools, outside of FB, there is an (unofficial) newsgroup on
Yahoo groups about it, it's just starting, check out the Firebird
Front End Tool Discussion. Has lots of lurkers, but few posters at
the moment.

Paul




Paul Schmidt
Tricat Technologies
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