I think you might've started in the job after I resigned :) I did a
stint for 6 months at a certain hospital, where they used Cache-based
software to run the emergency department.
All I can say is, you were too fair on Cache, CSP, the tools, the
language and so on - that was a nightmare six months I never want to go
through again. That was the nastiest software development (or is that
DBA'ing :/) I've ever had to suffer through.
I even had the 'pleasure' of going to one of the sales spiels on the
'new' Cache with all its OO features and so on ... a hideous
combination of sales lies^H^H^H mixed in with some hard-coded coding
demos (we all tried these demos later and none of them worked with the
CD's we were given, upon asking the sales guy, "Oh yes, mine is a
custom installation, all of this is fairly new grumble murmur run -
despite being touted as features of the release on the CD).
They seem to have gelled all of the bad things of proprietary software
environments with all of the lessons learned of how not to run large
scale projects. Then they have the hide to go and boast about their
database technology.... hmm, reminded me of working on PICK on an old
Sequoia mainframe, except I preferred PICK, at least it worked. I still
run cold at the mention of CSP's.
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