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Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:51:52 -0500
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On 3/3/2011 3:52 AM, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 01:05:53 -0500, Hyman Rosen wrote:
>
>> Do those "better" methods buy you all that?
>
> No, because of the present economical model of software developing.

Nonsense and unresponsive both. You have no evidence to support
your thesis that using relational databases to store data is bad.
Such databases reliably store massive amounts of data for thousands
of companies. You claim that some nebulous "quality" will accrue to
a roll-your-own data storage solution that you build in Ada, even
though it will need to be maintained, supported, and backed up in
ways alien to the existing system administrative function of the
company. I thoroughly disbelieve your claim.

> Quality does not have any significant value. Actually it has a negative
> value. Software vendors sell upgrades. Software houses do man-hours. Bug is
> a little helper to justify growing costs.

This is certainly not universally true. Consumer applications such
as games are reviewed upon release and the presence of errors can
destroy sales and ruin a company
(e.g., <http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/hellgate-london/923551p1.html>).
Furthermore, such software must be fixed by their manufacturers for
free many years after its initial release. Your claims are nonsense.

When upgrades are sold, they are sold by claiming new features,
not by claiming fixed errors.