Re: (not entirely...) OT: OPINION... chicken entrails, runic stones, and crystal balls... WAS CoBOL moved to OO

From: Peter E.C. Dashwood (dashwood_at_enternet.co.nz)
Date: 01/02/04 

Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 14:32:32 +1300

"Doug Scott" <dwscott@ieee.org> wrote in message
news:VA.000003c6.02ff5815@ieee.org...
> Peter,
>
> > You still show difficulty in grasping that the NETWORK will be King,
rather
> > than your centralised mainframe.
>
> Uh... Have you forgotten the Business?

Nope. On the contrary, I believe commercial computer systems mstsupport the
business; that is what they are there for...

>
> Users do expect some synchronisation of their data.
>

OK, so where is the problem? If I want to see everything as at 1701
yesterday, my transaction processing system can do it; in fact it can do it
for ANY time point I select. (My databases have all the transactions, as
well as the master data...)

If Charlie, in the Accounts department wants to know what I spent on company
travel in the last X days, the system can provide data synchronised to THAT
criterion, just as easily as it can data synchronised to NOW. Not only that,
but it can instantly load it into a Spread*** and transmit that to him, so
he can manipulate it however he wants to.

For a properly designed Network system, synchronisation is NOT a problem.

Pete.