Re: [xml-dev] Speed in Languages and Browser Architectures

[Rick Marshall <rjm@zenucom.com>]

Different conversation...

Management wants the applications to look good and be buzzword 
compliant. Users (ie ordinary people in the office) - they just want an 
easy way to do their jobs. And they seem indifferent to many aspects of 
look and feel that we spend sleepless nights worrying about.

So at least part of the reason we use XML is because the clients have 
read about it and want it. Can't sell a system without it. This is 
orthogonal to the best way to do things.

Rick

Robert Koberg wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:27:48 -0500, Rick Marshall <rjm@zenucom.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> Year ago when client/server was all the rage (still is?) I tested 
>> lots of ways to implement data intensive applications.
>>
>> The environments tested were:
>>
>> GUI client to database server
>> GUI/Terminal clients using NFS shared file systems
>> Terminal clients to database server
>> Terminal clients with database access built into the programs (sim to 
>> ISAM calls)
>>
>> The last option won hands down for performance and we have stuck to it.
>
> "and we deny any requests for actual user satisfaction!"
>
>
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