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It reminds me a question a friend asked a while back. An old man knowing nothing of computer asked me: "How much does a software cost these days?!"
Should we import/export data?! It depends on so many things like What sort of application are we talking about, what sort of market we are targeting, What sort of data is stored in application, What are defined as requirements or user requests, etc.
So I think an option is missing: It depends.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
-Jimi Hendrix
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Nice thought, when i start observe all this pools , i understood that this questions depends of a lot of factors, we can give a good asnwer using this input data, all we can do is to fill missed data with our own and discuss it.
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No, it depends only on one factor: customer requrements.
My customers always require at least an export or "data dump to excel" as some of the call the feature. 
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yeah but some of features are not required from start, so question is - making a powerfull export now or may be later when system will grow up.
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Good answer.
People here in this Forum usually forget of embedded applications, which in most cases, can't have it's data exported or imported, or even for security reasons.
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I agree... -Yes, if it is in the Specs and not contrary to security.-
Just because you can do something doesn't mean that it is a good idea... 
I'd blame it on the Brain farts.. But let's be honest, it really is more like a Methane factory between my ears some days then it is anything else...
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"The conversations he was having with himself were becoming ominous."-.. On the radio...
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Hamed Mosavi wrote: It reminds me a question a friend asked a while back. An old man knowing nothing of computer asked me: "How much does a software cost these days?!"
Reminds me of something similar too... I wrote a custom materials handling program a few years ago (back when 1.44 inch floppies were still used  and the customer questioned why he had to pay me a few thousands for a floppy that just cost about 100 Rupees 
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ChandraRam wrote: why he had to pay me a few thousands for a floppy that just cost about 100 Rupees
Sometimes in such situations I wonder shall I laugh now or cry?!
Maybe part of the problem is that we didn't go through the path that west did before they got here. I mean they had industrial era, information era and now that I don't know what is it invention, communication or maybe computer and technology era. But there they are where they shall be.
Thanks to new communication mechanisms some of us use latest technologies and didn't go through the steps in between, just jumped to the last step. Many technologies didn't emerge in our hands, they suddenly dropped and that might be why some of us don't feel we need it at all or ask what is the use of it and look at it as something luxury.
It's, to an extent, funny.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
-Jimi Hendrix
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and may be a secondary reason (and added to what you said)is that new technologies didn't just fall into everyone's hands in the society at the same time so it has caused these huge gaps to fall in!
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No it's mine I tell you, no one elses its all mine.
I find the export requirement can be easily me by allowing export of any grid in the application, I even wrote and article on it, only to be told that 100s others had already solved this problem.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Code is yours but data belong to user.
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Gunjan Bhasin wrote: Code is yours but data belong to user
Unless you are Facebook 
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Gunjan Bhasin wrote: data belong to user
But I have your data now evil laugh fading to silence
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Sounds like it could be a remake of the JG Wentworth commercial, under "It's my money"....
http://www.jgwentworth.com/about/advertising/[^]
Any reference to the "It's my money and I need it now!" be substituted with "It's my data and you can't have it!"
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon
"Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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