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Re:Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs? by osullivj on Thursday October 03, 2019 @06:50AM (#21145549)
Wonderful story - thanks! I was at Chase Manhattan in London from 1997-2000, and remember the Lotus Notes system well. I had Win NT and Solaris desktop systems. There was an appalling timesheet system called Agresso, the most counterintuitive Windows GUI I ever encountered. I guess the lesson is that mgmt diktat in corp envs repeatedly inflicts crappy solutions on captive users. Plus ca change!
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Re:Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs? by marapuru on Thursday October 03, 2019 @09:21AM (#21146606)
No! It cannot be that Agresso was already around at that time. I still have to work with that horrific system, even though it is webbased now. It's still a horrible experience.
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Re:Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs? by klenwell on Thursday October 03, 2019 @10:43AM (#21147564)
> There was an appalling timesheet system called Agresso, the most counterintuitive Windows GUI I ever encountered.

I love the idea that there was a terrible timesheet system called Agresso. And that it's still around today!

Some things do change with time. If this system was created today, I imagine it would be named something like quiesso or daisy.

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Re:Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs? by gdhbcc on Saturday October 05, 2019 @06:01AM (#21164703)
Actually I used to work for the company that makes it. It changed names some years ago and is now called "Unit4 Business World"

Small world

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Re:Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs? by wtvanhest on Thursday October 03, 2019 @11:30AM (#21148139)
Ted - Timesheet entry database
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Re:Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs? by yesbabyyes on Friday October 04, 2019 @03:49AM (#21155652)
Agresso was my first job. I got to migrate customers off of Ingres, Sybase, Informix to either Oracle or SQL Server 6.5. After some time, I got the opportunity to build their Crystal Reports integration. This was 1997-1998.
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Re:Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs? by marapuru on Friday October 04, 2019 @03:57AM (#21155694)
Do you happen to know whether the back-end systems would still be the systems that you used to work on? I have a feeling it never really changed...
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Re:Ask HN: What are weird and/or novel ways to do web UIs? by yesbabyyes on Friday October 04, 2019 @07:31AM (#21156584)
Sorry, I have no insight in that. When I was there we were just upgrading to Agresso 5, and as I remember it, it was pretty much a win32 app talking directly to the database. Not sure how much, if any, server part was there in between. So it has probably changed when they switched to web.
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