[Slightly OT?] Why It's Hard to Explain Rev

[John Tregea]

HyperCard!!! Just a Rolodex!!!

I small sampling of projects I did with HyperCard in the 1990's were:

Front end to the Singapore Ministry of Defence payroll system (250,000
transactions per month) integrating Oracle and MD Mars imaging system

Overdraft management system for Bangkok Bank (linking Singapore and
Thailand)

Reseller (spare part) ordering system for Apple Computer interfaced to S38

Information prompter for television anchor people in news 

Network based (pair work) Language learning software for German, Japanese
and French

Document level security system (Military Spec) for 2.5 million personnel
files

Decision support system for processing government funding applications for
tertiary education schemes

Videodisc front ends, spare parts catalogues, etc. etc. etc...

Many of these are still in use today

And BOY am I glad that I can now use that experience with Revolution instead
of being a dinosaur that doesn't write PHP, SOAP, XML, PERL, Java, ASP
etc... :)



-----Original Message-----
From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
[mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of J. Landman Gay
Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 5:43 AM
To: How to use Revolution
Subject: Re: [Slightly OT?] Why It's Hard to Explain Rev

Dom wrote:
> Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Welcome to the list. I find that if someone already knows what
>>HyperCard is then there's no problem. If they don't (most of the
>>managers I talk with when trying to pitch a project) then they just
>>don't get it.
> 
> 
> Anybody knows that HyperCard is just a RolodexR!
> 

For those who are wondering about this, Dom is refering to comments that 
Phil Schiller made when I met with him about the decline of HyperCard 
some years ago. He told me that HyperCard was really "just a Rolodex" 
with little programming value, thereby proving that he knew nothing at 
all about the product he was encouraging Steve Job to kill.

-- 
Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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