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My wife works at one. The horrible Oracle CRM* may be the least bad system they have. *AFAICT, each keystroke has to be sent to Redwood City to be individually

• ineedasername 6y ago
  each keystroke has to be sent to Redwood City to be individually massaged and returned Is it an older terminal-based system? Lots of those were designed (and still in use, 40+ years later). Usually it's not a big deal, in fact faster than modern interfaces, because they're built for decades-old hardware and low baud rates. Of course if you're still running the original hardware or have really screwed things up then performance goes out the window.
  • quercusa 6y ago
    No,that would probably preferable; there's a bad GUI too.
• gruez 6y ago
  >*AFAICT, each keystroke has to be sent to Redwood City to be individually massaged and returned. It's not as bad as you think. That's essentially how SSH works for instance, every keystroke has to be sent to the server before it shows up.
  • quercusa 6y ago
    Good point - I'd forgotten that! But I've never gotten 10+ characters ahead on SSH.
    • adanto6840 6y ago
      You haven't been in devops 'hell', then! ;-). Has been many years for me, but SSHing into a server with a high load and trying to diagnose = now sounds like training camp to me, hah. I remember waiting multiple minutes on a production system on more than 1 occasion! =D