[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] [OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen & Software Performance Analysis

[Joshua D. Drake]

On 02/20/2013 12:01 PM, Mike Rylander wrote:
>
>     There are two very good reasons for people to not use a software's
>     origin vendor. This is not a reflection of that vendor as it is a
>     reflection of any software community.
>
>     1. The origin is not going to be an expert in every technology
>     required to run Evergreen. They are an expert *IN* their software
>     (in this case Evergreen) which is a very different thing.
>
>     2. An outside vendor is objective. It can look at code,
>     architecture, queries, models and say, "Woah... what were they
>     (whoever they are) thinking here?"
>
>
>
> I had just such a moment, and cleaned up large a pile of such problems,
> very recently ... odd.
>
> In all seriousness, though, ESI is made up of those "people" of which
> you speak.  We're no more the "origin vendor" of Evergreen than you are
> of Postgres, with PG committers on staff.  And, again, you're still only
> addressing the "audit" phase, which is important, even critical, but
> does little for us Evergreeners five or 10 years from now.

I wasn't directing my comments at ESI. I am certainly no authority on 
your company. I was directing them at the ideas you presented.

JD

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