[yetihehe]

> And did you actually look for an expert or did you just get something from Ikea?

Sorry, but I don't see the point of your comment.

I looked for an expert who helped me with expanding my options. Expert != "will sell his exact product he is trying to sell in the place he is working at". Sometimes as an expert you even have to advise a client against your product, because he will try to use something not designed for him.

> I was in $RANDOM_HOTEL last month. Now I want to redo the attachment system for all my curtains in the house because theirs was smarter than what I knew to ask for.

But did you look for an expert? Expert might suggest a better alternative than you currently have, but you gained information yourself by accident. If not for that happy accident and you being observant, you wouldn't know.

[nottorp]

Yes to everything you said and also to what i said :) You just took it personally.

The whole idea is I'm trying to place the "expert" software engineers in a position where they're not the experts to make them understand their clients better.

> and you being observant

OT: How many other great home improvement ideas have i missed because i wasn't observant enough?

Edit: or is it really off topic? Will the customer of the software engineer research, say, all possible database solutions or, even assuming great communication with the engineers, just pick a good enough one from their combined knowledge?