Carl Hughes <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

<< Many excellent comments >>.

>...  (On a side note, I believe data
>drives a business.  There is no such thing as "Legacy Data" -- either a
>business needs the data to operate or it doesn't.  There is such a thing as
>a "Legacy Application" -- an application is comprised of the choices a
>business made in programming language and other tools to "use" the data.)

This is a very perceptive description!  You get my heart-felt
congratulations for your superb (and appropriate) use of language.
Unfortunately, this has become a rarity nowadays.


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