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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As the subject heading suggests, the engineering of
a rules system is one thing - the modification of such a system is
another.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Why ??</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Most vendors are touting the ability to have
multiple business users writing rules, e.g. Tessie the Typist is told to write a
modification to the business rules in her free time between midnight and dawn
and the CEO decides he can dabble in rules engineering also by augmenting what
he told Tessie to do.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The result ??</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PURE CHAOS !!!!!!!! Putting multiple rules into an
environment and letting them "fight it out" is suicidal !! Any logic in a rules
system must be well thought out and organized.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is why companies are paying up $300 per
hour for "vendor consultants" - to fix this crap. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>They are smiling "all the way to the
bank".</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rich Halsey</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Pensacola, FL</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>USA</FONT></DIV>
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