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• Enterprise software (Score:1)

  by mary.poppins (3530)

  Yeah, "enterprise software" is often of very poor quality, and designed poorly, because it is developed under tight deadlines. No time to think things through, just ship it!
  
  Compounding this problem is the turnover at proprietary software companies. The best way to get a raise is to switch jobs. The *only* way to avoid ever-increasing responsibilities is to switch jobs. As a result, people switch jobs frequently, and there is a constant refrain of "don't touch it, we don't really understand it any more".
  • Re:Enterprise software (Score:1)

    by perrin (4270)

    The original version of Vignette was actually pretty interesting. It was not a CMS so much as a web development system created by some apache hackers at cnet.com. They hooked into the 404 handler to generate missing content on demand and then cache it so it could be served statically. A daemon process would clear out expired items. This is better than a pre-generation strategy (like Bricolage and Krang use) in some situations, especially when you have a large amount of content but only some of it gets l
• Storyserver *twitch* (Score:2)

  by schwern (1528)

  Storyserver was my introduction to CMS back in 1997. It used TCL *gag* 7.2 when 8 was long since available. All templates were stored in the database (if anyone suggests large blocks of human editable text should live in an SQL database, shoot them.) Templates had no symbolic names, you had to refer to them by numeric ID. This lead to cryptic statements like "include 2938" and you just had to remember that template 2938 is your top menu bar.
  
  Templates had to be edited through a special Java editor that o