Myles Braithwaite

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Recently at a clients I had to work with a property software developed in ASP. It was developed by a vendor and another consultant company. Now the vendor’s software (of course) was compiled into DLL files (for those of you who work in python think eggs in java think wars) so IIS could server nicely (now this is a property software so this is quite normal). Now most of that would normally be okay but except for a bug in the software in the database layer. Now this (as told to me by the other consultants firm) was just a matter of a sequence file not in the database. No lets say if this was a open source project I would have CC myself to the bug ticket to receive up to the minute status on said bug. After a month of waiting I might even go as far as to download the version, simulate the environment and begin seeing what the problem is and if I find anything would create a patch and attach it to my ticket. Of course because this is property software all I can do is sit back and hear allot of bullshit.