Great Editorial. Now all we need is a link that teaches managers and developers how not to over-promise and one that teaches developers how to get over the "just get it off my plate" syndrome. 😉
It all boils down to the simple rules that "Good enough usually isn't" and that "If you want it real bad, that's the way you'll usually get it". 😛
The bottom line is that it takes time to learn how to write good code and unit test it with enough data to know if it will perform well. Too many people won't take the time to do either. That's why SSDs and things like Hekaton are such a draw... they promise the gift of performance for crap code. :w00t:
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.