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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...
June 23, 2006 at 5:48 am
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...
June 22, 2006 at 9:05 am
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...
June 19, 2006 at 6:38 am
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...
June 15, 2006 at 5:53 am
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...
June 7, 2006 at 6:03 am
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...
May 25, 2006 at 7:12 am
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...
May 8, 2006 at 7:29 am
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...
May 4, 2006 at 6:29 am
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,...
April 25, 2006 at 6:31 am
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...
April 13, 2006 at 5:30 am
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...
April 11, 2006 at 7:02 am
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...
April 4, 2006 at 6:11 am
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...
March 30, 2006 at 5:31 am
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