On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 11:57:32AM +0200, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> This is the bit that's been bugging me this whole thread. Who owns the
> data? I've had to help people out with programs where they could type
> data in but couldn't get the reports they wanted out. Furtunatly,
> Access's access control is, uh, simplistic and I created the reports
> they needed.
>
> If someone tried to sell me a system where I couldn't even get in table
> format the raw info I had entered, I'd tell them to go away. Like you
> say, the data is way more important that whatever program you're using.
It is not that easy. I.e. most(if not all) world manufacturers of SDH or
DWDM technologies know that the data is very important. They know that at
certain time customers will want to have an access to *their* raw data, so
they all have (mostly limited) interfaces to their EMSes. But they have
to be purchased for incredible ammounts of money. In such cases TelCos
cannot say: "go away"
regards,
Bohdan