Hossy

(App, USA)

The only product of Zero - whatever else they made were just add-ons to this, or parts of it, and was sold exclusively to existing customers of the main product.

It was a tool for teaching hospitals, to pick the best candidate students, make a schedule, and evaluate the stažers. It was a good app in the beginning, practically invented the market, but they got their asses aimed at going big, attracting investors, going IPO, „and then we all go fishing“, as Frank expressed it. For that they brownnosed to m$ and strained to gain a partner status (the plaque with the words was prominent in the hall), and then Grant came and persuaded them into ditching fox and switching to COM objects in VB6, ASP, SQL server... which was altogether as slow as a waiter (but the guy somehow demonstrated that fox would be slower (!), don't know how he managed that), required kilometers of code for even simplest things, and eventually converted a live and ass kicking app into smoke and mirrors.


Mentions: 28-XI-1998., 05-XII-1998., april 1999., 13-IX-1999., 16-IX-1999., 27-IX-1999., 04-X-1999., 09-XII-1999., 25-XII-1999., 06-III-2000., 09-III-2000., 15-IV-2000., 25-IV-2000., 17-V-2000., 20-XI-2000., 09-XII-2000., 27-XII-2000., 20-II-2001., 05-IV-2001., 30-IV-2001., 31-V-2001., 28-VII-2001., 15-VIII-2001., 21-VIII-2001., 31-VIII-2001., 01-IX-2001., 13-X-2002., fox, Frank Shelby, Grant Laurel, Leanne Harper, Leevor, Majkrosoft (m$), rebfpt.prg, Rich Petrovich, staž, Zero Distance (Zero), in serbian

24-I-2010 - 25-III-2026