Third party software development: what you don’t know

larkia said:
I agree. If you did regular maintenance and made sure the code base was future proof, well maintained and commented in a proper way, catering for all these 'versions', with whatever minor differences they might have, would not have been such a big issue. I can see however that this can be a pain for the support team trying to pinpoint every new anomaly in the system and then for the developers to setup a similar environment and track and trace the issue to fix.
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Much (if not all) of the pain can be removed by implementing SCM & an appropriate branching/merging/build strategy.
 
Yeah, so one of three things happened:
1. Kevin Phillips was either severely misquoted and this article exaggerated on what he said.
2. Since (according to their site) they develop HR/reporting solutions (non of which should use low-level OS stuff). I doubt they have to redesign anything when windows changes it's OS. Maybe he just likes to moan.
2. Or idu Software designs and develops half-assed software.
 
Next we'll get an article from a backyard mechanic on how new-fangled "Computer boxes" are making it impossible to service cars
 
rrh said:
True - speak to any Merc or BMW mechanic ... :D
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It's easy for them. They do not fix anymore, they just replace, and we pay big time:(:(.
I foresee that in the future car maintenance is going to cost more than paying for the car.
 
LPCPT said:
It's easy for them. They do not fix anymore, they just replace, and we pay big time:(:(.
I foresee that in the future car maintenance is going to cost more than paying for the car.
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One of the reasons not to purchase a car without a service plan ...
 
Other vendors such as Oracle, Adobe, SAP, Blizzard/Activision etc., don't seem to have the same problems and manage to rollout and support very reliable software that operates across a range of MS operating systems from XP to Vista, Windows 7 etc.
 
techies should be the ones complaining as they have to deal with stupid questions like the screen goes black after a few min(screen saver >.>) or why is the taskbar on my new pc see through...
 
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