Re: It's COBOL, Jim, but not as we know it...

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:55:51 +1300, "Pete Dashwood"
<dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The model is evolving. It is no more "wrong" than any other model would have
been. Investment of many millions has been made into improving it. Judging
today's model by what was true yesterday, is simply misleading.

But customers do this all the time (check out why people choose their
new automobiles). So if we want them to use our web application, we
have a choice - either force them to change, be willing to lose them
as customers, or make our application work with more universally
accepted technologies than just Active-X.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison
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