It's absurd how similar data is, how generic it is, but how arbitrary interfaces formats protocols and other layers impede cross-functioning. So much resistance, so much impedance!
It fizzled & failed (also got replaced by the web & APIs) but OLE/COM and CORBA, those were interesting historical junctures where we expected computing as a whole to weave together better. All is one!
I love this project. Makes perfect sense. Hell yes I want a sheet for each resource & to be able to edit it.
Just imagine, a spredsheet for every resource definition...
Yes I can see it, I would not want to work with this at all and when management realises all they have to do is play with the spreadsheet, the dream crumbles just as quick as it came to be :D
It fizzled & failed (also got replaced by the web & APIs) but OLE/COM and CORBA, those were interesting historical junctures where we expected computing as a whole to weave together better. All is one!
I love this project. Makes perfect sense. Hell yes I want a sheet for each resource & to be able to edit it.