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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (11086)	9/30/1998 3:20:00 PM
From: J. P.	Respond to of 74651

< Massive economies of scale, zero cost of production, on products that everybody depends on, and no competition to speak of.> Gawd, this is the utopian business model. And I have to agree, lots of their products suck, I can't stand all those MS Word releases, you spend half the time trying to figure out how to use the damn thing. I actually prefer to use notepad for memos. Excel is going overboard with features we don't need and most will never use. Most client server event driven software does suck. The only way to get away from almost infinite iterations of events (and the attendent 'bugs') is to go back to inline COBOL type stuff. Remember the event driven stuff is only about 10 years old or so and has a long way to go.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (11086)	9/30/1998 3:42:00 PM
From: cheryl williamson	Respond to of 74651

Daniel, Have you ever heard the saying that writing good software is a little like writing a good song??? It is extremely difficult to do by committee. Windows & NT & Word etal.. aren't the first, or only examples of failed bloatware projects. Another thing to bear in mind is this: marketing-types do NOT belong in the software lab, period. The original NT & OS/2 were not written by committee & were the better for it. However, MSFT often adheres to the "kitchen sink" theory of software design & you get any number of half-wits (like Gates) sitting around in a meeting saying "What if...." or "Wouldn't it be great if we could..." or "How about acing out Lotus with a...." ad nauseum. All the great programming talent in the world can't overcome idiotic product management. Usually what happens is the good ones are the first to get frustrated & leave then the rest of the project gets picked up by the lower-end, who put up with the stupid demands from the salesman-of-the-month-turned-software-designer. Thankfully we don't build bridges & office buildings the way MSFT builds a software project...