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  • RE: US IT

    The biggest problem I see in off-shoring isn't immediate, but long-term. A lot of the jobs being sent overseas are the ones where the future leaders of the community started in...

  • RE: The BI Guy

    In 2004 I participated in a product that had a layer of BI (not part of what I was responsible for), and I had a chance to observe BI expertise...

  • RE: The Top 10

    Now...if MS was to make a SQL Server for Linux, they would have three problems:

    1) Sales of Windows Server would drop;

    2) They would have a less optimal database...

  • RE: The Data Bill of Rights

    An effective stop-gap would be to strike together some laws to handle misuse of data, and make the keepers of the data libel for any loss incurred through its loss...

  • RE: The Daily Lookup

    I may be missing something, but the argument this design could be about warehousing data strikes me as improbable. In a data warehouse, that table's rows would have...

  • RE: How Many Times Will This Happen?

    I'm curious if and how large the business impact will be for hotels.com. I know I'll be far less apt to ever book a hotel with them, because they obviously...

  • RE: Getting Back In Touch

    I once asked my coders to measure their performance, and told them they could do so on any basis so long as they could explain it. One or two common...

  • RE: Buggy Software

    A few thoughts:

    Sometimes the user (or business team) is at fault. The environment for business today is about cost-control, and anything the bean-counters don't understand...

  • RE: Outsourced = Laid Off?

    This is only just on topic...but I'm thinking out of the box this morning, I suppose.

    It's important not to fall under the sway of political definitions. Outsourced, laid off, down-sized...they...

  • RE: Perks

    Perks are fine, I suppose, but doesn't it sometimes make you wonder, "What's wrong with the place of employment?" Wouldn't it be better to pay fairly, and then defie the...

  • RE: Working Out of a Job

    If you work for a company, do the job right, and they reward you with a pink slip...you're probably better off being shifted out early. Those companies degenerate into stressful,...

  • RE: The Database Debate

    Very interesting.

    From an opposing perspective, the perceived price/value partly explains why some businesses have a harder time justifying return on investment for total cost of ownership of some systems. Our...

  • RE: The 36 Hour Day

    Being a traditionalist (I used to be a realist, but that is out of vogue), I reject the idea of more than 24 hours in a day, and manage my...

  • RE: Ethics

    In Canada, the government itself is one of the worst offenders in this type of behaviour (though there are laws to try to prevent it). In some ways when governments...

  • RE: A Live Node

    What I always found strange is that so many people "need" to be connected. Eight years ago I was on a fishing trip, my cell phone rang, and I answered...

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