datamati

1801 S. La Cienega Boulevard Los Angeles, California
The Magazine of Automatic Information Handling .

August 9, 1978

Dear M. Lelarge,

We have had great difficulty with your manuscript. It is now our impression that you cover enough ground in the article to fill several textbooks' It is, of course, impossible to be so comprehensive in a magazine article.

Part of our problems have been with the language. We have tried our best to understand what you are saying.

Our best evaluation is that one part of what you are writing about might be a good subject for an article. This is the section dealing with the generic coding scheme for business data, which we think best applies to small businesses proprietorships rather than to countries, however.

While we do think that this discussion of input transactions would be useful to our readers, we must admit that the difficulties of rewriting your article to suit this end are insurmountable for US.For this reason, we are afraid we must abandon the project. If, however, you are interested in doing an article on this subject only, beginning from scratch, we will be most happy to review it.

Thank you for your patience. We appreciate your interest in Datamation and would be pleased to hear from you again

Sincerely yours,

Richard A. McLaughlin, Articles Editor

Note au 21 mars 1998:

Des VIPs, dignes de ce nom, prétendent que j'ai déboulé, il y a 33 ans, avec le gestion intégrée. Moi, je dis seulement: "Après avoir cherché 7 ans, j'eus soudain l'intuition que tous les documents des entreprises pouvaient se ramener à un enregistrement unique en Ordino. Alors j'ai garni une table de Mendéleiev avec les cas rencontrés et déduit les possibles. Puis je les ai cherchés, jusque dans des entreprises de 50.000 ou 80.000 personnes"
Mais obtenir de leur PDGs, le droit d'enquêter librement, faut plus que temps et astuce. Faut les étonner. Un grand PDG, (j'ai une théorie sur la raison de sa compétence), c'est celui qui étonne; comme un artiste étonne. Moi, je gérais par l'étonnement... Courrier à suivre, mais savez-vous la place de DATAMATION dans les années 70?