Re:Time to retire the CSV?
by dylan604 on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @12:23PM
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The consultant should be less concerned about what makes their life/job easier, but what makes their client's job easier by working with the consultant. If the client has to jump through hoops to serve consultant1 data in a format they are not used to, but consultant2 will accept the data they have already available or can be exported in a format familiar to them, the client will prefer consultant2.
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Re:Time to retire the CSV?
by dragonwriter on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @12:26PM
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Sure, but if everyone is blocked from using the format consultant1 opposes because the industry wakes up one day and abandons it utterly, then consultant2 no longer has an advantage, which is why someone who would be consultant1 except that they don't want to lose business to consultant2 lobbies for it.
My point is that the consultant needs to understand the capabilities of the client more so than dictating terms just because it is convenient to the consultant. The scenario you describe is not out of the realm of possibility, but it's also not unheard of to have a client with such antiquated systems that there is no using of modern anything. Hence, why CSV will never die.