eric.fetterolf (2/22/2012)

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Truth is you need both. But to answer which should get paid more: As a controller once told me - Cash is King.

Sales people bring revenue. Sales...

call.copse (2/22/2012)

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Revenant (2/17/2012)

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If you watch TV commercials, you may notice that the best salesmen are cute kids, dogs, and cats, in this order. No experience necessary.

Draw your own conclusions,...

Joe-10953 (2/21/2012)

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Supply & Demand:

Good-Excellent developers/engineers are hard to find and should command what the market will bear.

'Good' salespeople are easy to find but excellent reps should be compensated based...

ken.trock (2/20/2012)

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"Send...

emmchild (2/19/2012)

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Customers wanted XML support so that is what they got. The rest of the world is using json efficiently and leaving sqlserver in the dust. Phil I think we...

I can no longer find a cite, but Fabian Pascal once made the obvious point: xml is not in any meaningful way "self describing", for if it were both...

Umm. I think you've made the point.

GSquared (2/17/2012)

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RobertYoung (2/17/2012)

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GSquared (2/17/2012)

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Heather May (2/17/2012)

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If you ask a salesperson, they will say the salesperson should make more. If you ask a developer, they will say a developer should make...

GSquared (2/17/2012)

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Heather May (2/17/2012)

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If you ask a salesperson, they will say the salesperson should make more. If you ask a developer, they will say a developer should make more. The...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/17/2012)

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Having purchased lots of software and seen lots of sales, I'm not...

It appears to have gone away, but Spolsky did a great piece on pricing (and by example, sales staffing) of software. The title is "Camels and Rubber Duckies", I...

The stereotypical distinction:

- programmer/developer has the job of coercing the machine into doing something it is perfectly capable of doing, although the programmer may have difficulty in divining the right...

Tom Garth (11/9/2010)

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Elsewhere they are scanning everthing that ships into their stores when it arrives and scan where in the store it goes to further track specific Inventory detail. The...

In the world of commercial/business software, aka database systems, the answer to maintenance costs is to embrace SSD/BCNF. Why, you may ask? Let me count the ways.

1) by...

wbrianwhite (11/4/2010)

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jyurich (11/3/2010)

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Am I the only one using Microsoft's Entity Data Model (EDM) technology as an ORM for modeling as well as for the data access layer? This is a...