[geeks] Oh my god... {VB}

[Chris Hedemark]

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On Friday, November 29, 2002, at 11:52 AM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

>>   Who?  Where?
>
> Pfizer.  Armstrong World Industries. Fog Creek Software (OK, they 
> aren't
> that big, but their leader, Joel Spolsky, has a fair amount of fame in
> certain less acedemic programming circles).  Ryder.  Microhelp (Their
> uninstaller product was written in VB, but I think the company has gone
> out of business).  These are just off the top of my head.

Also lots of it in the North Carolina state government, several of the 
southeastern major regional financial institutions and Merck & Co.

Lots of the real work gets done on the back end (client server model) 
but VB is "good enough" for a pretty end user GUI, and actually has 
decent RDBMS integration.

Chris Hedemark .. Hillsborough, NC .. http://yonderway.com
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