Re: [Fsfe-uk] Newham: Richard Steel speaks (Techworld)

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-01-24 12:30:24 +0000 James Heald <address@hidden> wrote:

> Kieran McCarthy, who often writes for the Register, has serveral 
> quotes from 
> Richard Steel, the head of ICT at Newham, in this piece at Techworld:
>
> http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=displaynews&NewsID=916

One part of it seems to be that they have let themselves be locked in 
quite severely, with things like non-portable macro-based solutions. 
It may cut immediate development costs, but makes migration more 
expensive and few places compare projected budgets that will show the 
real financial effect of that decision. By the time it shows up, the 
bad decision maker will probably be elsewhere.

The apparent claim that people complain about the small UI differences 
goes against what I've heard from speakers who work on this sort of 
thing, including netproject and Sun. Of course, it would be good for 
both of those if people can tolerate small differences. Can anyone 
point me at good research about this? If you prefer to email me 
off-list, I will summarise replies.

Other than that, it seems that we're progressing along the old phrase: 
first, they ignore you; then, they fight you; finally, you win.

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