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|    Lawrence D'Oliveiro to All    |
|    Re: Mimer SQL    |
|    24 Jun 25 00:15:48    |
      From: ldo@nz.invalid              On Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:51:27 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:              > If Larry Ellison had called the relevant SVP 3 years ago and said "I       > want Rdb on VMS x86-64 in 12 months - you hire 100 software       > engineers, if that is not enough you hire a 100 more, if that is not       > enough then 100 more, but get it done", then we would have had Rdb       > by now.              Brooks’ (First?) Law: “Adding manpower to a late software project makes it       later”.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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