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by Glenn Franxman, Stunt Programmer.
posted: 2003-06-10 23:54:06 perma-link, RSS comments feed
Copious freetime. I had it when I was young. I don't have it now, and I miss it.
Copious freetime. I had it when I was young. I don't have it now, and I miss it.
Today marked the third whiz-bang vendor product touted to boost our searching power over large datasets. It also marks the third to use a combination of Huffman coding, key inversion and the postman sort. It's not that these things are trivial to impliment. They're not. And it's not like these vendors don't have other niceties tacked on. They do.
But for crying out loud. How much would you pay to have these tools?
$1,000?
$10,000?
$100,000?
Try $150,000. Or more. Try that with a 20% yearly maintenance. It's pretty tough to justify. Maybe in another three years, when we've done enough analytics the hard way and kept the right metrics to know what it would save us.
True, it might enable us to make additional money, and faster. But who's to say we wouldn't have made that money without it? Of course, for $100k, you could hire someone and give them a year to build it. I dont think that's unrealistic.
If I had the time at work, I'd try to convince them to let me do it, but there's so much else to do. I guess I'm just belly aching. I'd better add a category for 'Piss and Moan' posts.
Howard Owens said on 2003-06-11 10:00:52:
"Of course, for $100k, you could hire someone and give them a year to build it. I dont think that's unrealistic."
Yup.
Of course, then you've got to maintain it.
Still, I still favor in-house solutions were viable.
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