Deutsche Bank's Global Equity Derivatives unit gave its developers access to XML Web services and ASP.NET custom controls with Visual Studio .NET and the .NET Framework."
Just for the record, Deutsche Bank's IT division is a major competitor of my firm. Today they went down to Florida for a MAJOR client to demo their VB .Net product that competes with our VB 6 product.
I got the giggly phone call from one of the client's staffers this afternoon. Deutsche Bank's VB .Net app failed to download, failed to install, and failed to run. They killed three hours with principals of this client looking on (not good to waste EVP's time, either).
Now last year when their app was still in VB 6, they nailed their demo and snagged quite a few clients.
Not now with Dot Net. Oh, they thought that their code had been converted properly, and they knew that they had properly tested it.
Amatuers.
The good news is that their flub will make my firm even richer.
Such is life in production, where real coding counts for more than bells and whistles, and where professionals know what true backwards compatibility is worth...