RE: RE: RE: Siebel.

You'd almost have to be God to fix it.....it consists of 1000s of tables. It took me 2 weeks to reverse into Designer. My customer is not welling to pay for the time to fix the design.

"Mohan, Ross" <MohanR_at_STARS-SMI.com>@fatcity.com on 11/29/2001 04:17:58 PM

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Dick,

question for ya....if you "owned" Siebel, lock, stock and barrel, what would you do?

1. Fix and switch ALL RI to the database ( oracle and ms and ibm and others)
2. Just fix it where it is broken, but leave it in the app itself
3. leave it out but publish a tech spec document telling users/DBAs how and where to implement RI constraints.
4. something else.

I am curious how you would solve Tom Siebel's problem of shipping an app across, say, four or five major different dbms platforms while simultaneously
keeping bugs, development costs , requiring consulting and document costs down,
and upgrade schedules and bug fixes in place.

In other words...if you were "god" how would you fix this problem you see?

curious,

Ross

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Dennis,

    You ought to be a sales droid! That was a perfectly worded reply and in
MANY instances I'll agree with you. The ease or of lack thereof in administering an application is very often decided on by damagement by whether
or not they need a dedicated/specialized resource to handle it. Therefore sales
droids will constantly downplay that requirement, until the check is in hand.
Actually sales droids downplay a lot of requirements for their software until
the deal is in the bank. Then they drop the bomb. And then people like us are
left to clean up.

Dick Goulet

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