Suggestion for FP

[Dick Burke]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 08:56:37 -0400, Walter Vaughan wrote:

>Brian K. White wrote:
>> I don't actually run into "can't do that" too often. So 
>> *shrug* inertia I guess.

>Are you running into industry wide integration of your applications with your 
>customer's competitors and trading partners?

>I am. And as a end user developer it really sucks.

>No longer it's about writing a report in seconds, or creating automation.

>It's all about integration.

>Talking to black boxes.
>Talking to applications.

>Right about now I feel that I am standing in a pretty nice clean train station 
>with nice restaurants and gadget stores galore, however a train is pulling away 
>from the station, and I'm not sure if I should be on that train or not. In the 
>back of my mind, I have a haunting feeling that I can stay at the station for 
>just a short time longer till someone turns off the power, and then I'm going to 
>be standing in the dark.

I stood in that station for five years before I took a different train.

Dick Burke