Re: Some Lateral thinking Required - Hard-Coded instance workaround

"HansF" <News.Hans_at_telus.net> wrote in message news:pan.2006.04.18.01.37.20.699481_at_telus.net...
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 18:48:04 -0700, Jim Kennedy wrote:
>
> >>
> > Which gives a good reason why off shoring is not a bright idea. But I
am
> > sure you already knew that. Clearly these aren't talented or seasoned
> > application developers. All that money that was "saved" by off shoring
> > comes back to haunt one.
>
> With all due respect - one can get the same lack of talent without going
> offshore.
>
> Or worse - one can get seasoned talent in other environments who know
> even less in the target environment than the off shore groups.
>
> I can't count the times I've followed 'SQL experts' who were actually
> 'SQLServer' experts with no knowledge of Oracle. The code, while probably
> excellent for SQL Server, often has [many and significant] opportunities
> for improvement in Oracle.
>
> --
> Hans Forbrich
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Absolutely true. I've just been hearing a lot of off shore complaints vis a vis this type of thing. But you are very correct. Jim Received on Mon Apr 17 2006 - 21:06:04 CDT