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Business systems: inventory, sales orders, purchasing, forecasting, accounting, etc. One is one of the largest master distributors of industrial supplies in th
by edw519 16y ago
Business systems: inventory, sales orders, purchasing, forecasting, accounting, etc.
One is one of the largest master distributors of industrial supplies in the world.
Another is a web-based and catalog distributor of consumer goods (mostly apparel.)
Each has acquired 5 competitors in the past 10 years, converting all of them from whatever they were running to their 20+ year old software written in 40+ year old technology. Both were super agile long before any of us ever used the term.
(All client side web software is written in javascript. Some things do change.)
- pavel_lishin 16y agoI assume that since it's mostly industrial, they don't have a thousand hits a day, etc., form random web gawkers looking to buy a doodle for their home?
- jeromec 16y agoI don't think his point is about what's subjectively the best language to build websites, but rather that language is not the focus of how to make a highly successful business.
- tianyicui 16y agoWhich kind of Basic? Visual Basic .NET?
- drm237 16y agoThat would not be a "47 year old language".
- edw519 16y agoThere may be concurrent instances of "super agile" and "Microsoft", but I have never witnessed one. The two companies I cited use InfoBASIC, each on a different variant of the old Pick operating system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system
- jacques_chester 16y agoIn fairness, Pick would be a lot of the secret sauce here.
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