Roy Lambert wrote:
> You have missed two important points - communication & vision.

Well, I had not missed them, just deliberately ignored them, while
knowing you are 100% correct.

It's always the same with small start-ups and people with vision,
without the encumbrance of communication. They have (or he/she has)
about ten times the productive and creative energy (conservatively put)
of a single developer put in an assigned team.

It'd be a very interesting study, that tries to find a solution to this
problem. I think the way it goes at the moment, mostly, is that these
lone supermen develop their wonders, and then get noticed by the larger
entity, get swallowed, and, of course, mildly frustrated, while their
product gets into the hands of a "committee."

I don't know if Google found a solution to this. I think they are
trying to nurture creativity inside the company, but the only awesome
thing I saw coming out of Google is Google Earth, at the moment. Maybe
there's a handful of other stuff, but nothing like what 10,000 (lone)
Tim Youngs would produce (which probably would involve teleportation
and parallel universes).

Fascinating subject.

Dominique

>Tim Youngs would produce (which probably would involve teleportation
>and parallel universes).

Teleportation - fine; parallel universes, even though the concept comes from quantum physics I just can't get my head round, and apart from a few spoof stories which are good neither can the vast majority of SF writers.

Roy

Dom,

<< Have they never approached you with any offers, btw? Hard to believe. >>

Nope, I'm not sure if many at EMB even know who we are, outside of developer
relations.

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Roy,

<< One Tim Young can communicate remarkably well with himself. >>

You'd be surprised.  (You probably know exactly what I'm talking about -
looking at code that one wrote several months ago and trying to figure out
what one was thinking at the time.)

--
Tim Young
Elevate Software
www.elevatesoft.com

Tim

>You'd be surprised. (You probably know exactly what I'm talking about -
>looking at code that one wrote several months ago and trying to figure out
>what one was thinking at the time.)

I think you're over exaggerating the timescales involved - try yesterday

Roy

Roy Lambert wrote:
> I think you're over exaggerating the timescales involved - try
> yesterday

Luxury. Try three minutes!

Tim Young [Elevate Software] wrote:
> Nope, I'm not sure if many at EMB even know who we are, outside of
> developer relations.

That's insane.

Dominique

>Tim Young [Elevate Software] wrote:
>> Nope, I'm not sure if many at EMB even know who we are, outside of
>> developer relations.
>
>That's insane.

Do you really want Embarcadero to get their hands on DBISAM or ElevateDB?

Roy Lambert

Roy Lambert wrote:
> Do you really want Embarcadero to get their hands on DBISAM or
> ElevateDB?

Of course not! But they're integrating all sorts of database toys in
there, and it might save them a lot of resources and time to just put
Elevisam in there and bloody start concentrating on getting the bugs
out of all the friggin' rest.