A few days ago, I linked to this essay by Jeff Schneider, CEO of Momentum Software, on what real programmers could learn from the rapid application deployment of the "idiots" shunted off to Lotus Notes development:
"Our users started telling us that they wanted the new application to be done in Notes (not PowerBuilder). 'What? You want it in Notes??? Those are the idiot programmers that we couldn't fire.' I thought to myself."
Richard Schwartz, a Notes/Domino consultant, is glad to see heavyweight programmers coming around:
"... Of course, there's a place for all that mainstream service-oriented, enterprise class stuff, too. We in the Notes and Domino community have known that all along, too. That's where we always sent the idiot programmers that we couldn't fire, which worked out very well because they would disappear into two-year projects that were obsolete before they were released, so the fact that they couldn't design anything that met real user requirements would end up moot. And they'd be out of our way, so we could be more productive. ;-)"
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