unclenelli
I don't disagree with most of what you say, and I have been very critical of most of the IT systems we use day-to-day, but the main problems with the operation of RASDA were (and still are) to do with the limited bandwidth available on the SLI, and the fact that the users initially wanted too much from it, but were then reluctant to use it because of a lack of direction from above. One thing that I recall from it was our inability to use the latest version of Oracle (which I think was 8i ??) and so the developers were forced to use the previous version (7?) instead. The reason was that the new version of the software had not been security accredited yet. Has the same been the case on JPA I wonder? We found that the developers were having to un-learn skills, rather like having their hands tied behind their backs.
As for being user-unfriendly, I agree it's not perfect, but RASDA is a massive step-forward from its predecessor (UKAIR CCIS).
I'll get me coat. Back to JPA.
STH
Last edited by SirToppamHat; 30th Apr 2006 at 18:26.