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  • RE: SQL Server Knockoffs?

    Steve Jones - Editor (3/19/2009)


    ...that barely needed any of the functionality of SQL Server. So many of them take advantage of bare features, essentially using a dumb data store.

    We use...

  • RE: Union Benefits

    David Reed (3/19/2009)


    I was halfway through my MPA/MIS (masters in public administration/MIS) back in the early-'90s... after visiting various IT shops @ different levels of government (federal/state/local) and comparing salaries...

  • RE: SQL Server Knockoffs?

    I don't see software as a commodity happening during my life / career. It very well may happen, but I think I'll be dead and buried for a long...

  • RE: Union Benefits

    Steve Jones - Editor (3/16/2009)


    Glad you saved the bike :P, and heal soon.

    I think IT overall is a bit of a frontier. It's maturing, but it's still not as mature...

  • RE: Union Benefits

    Samuel Johnson (3/14/2009)


    databases are still a frontier industry

    when I first started out, I had friends who earned a fortune programming static HTML pages; now even good web application developers are...

  • RE: Union Benefits

    As you can see, it has the desired effect. We went from one or more trivial, wasteful meetings a day, to an occasional Saturday meeting. I'd say it...

  • RE: Union Benefits

    jcrawf02 (3/10/2009)


    Steve Jones - Editor (3/10/2009)


    That's what meetings should be for sure. and they should be short. too many people schedule an hour when 10 minutes would work.

    Amen, brother, preach...

  • RE: Union Benefits

    Nicole Bowman (3/8/2009)


    People with a family certainly wouldn't be happy with 4x10 hour days let alone 2x20.

    What I would really like is some form of paid maternity leave.

    Well,...

  • RE: Union Benefits

    jcrawf02 (3/6/2009)


    Relocation benefits for expansions or transfers, to help cover moving expenses.

    profit-sharing for process improvement

    time allotted for public volunteerism.

    If the company is forcing the relo, then they should...

  • RE: Union Benefits

    -Retraining

    Typically budgeted for, but THIS year things are a little tight. Can attend locally, but traveling is verboten.

    Ergo Chairs -

    I have my wonderful...

  • RE: The Value of Your Time

    nicholas.catley (2/18/2009)


    thanks...:D But you kind of miss my point. The article was about people with appropriate skills doing appropriate tasks. As a person commenting on a forum, adequate comprehensibility is...

  • RE: The Value of Your Time

    nicholas.catley (2/18/2009)


    ...taling of getting the person with the right skills doing appropriate tasks, I really thing that someone with a better grasp of the grammar of the English language should...

  • RE: The Value of Your Time

    This ties nicely back to the Trust editorial.

    That said, back in the late 90s I went for an interview with a small privately held children's products company. ...

  • RE: Global Warming and Business Intelligence

    Steve Holle (2/13/2009)


    Take compact florecents, for example. Save energy and trash the environment.

    Remember when batteries were the bogeyman of the day? They were bad because of mercury. ...

  • RE: Global Warming and Business Intelligence

    And through all of the articles I've read on Climate change, I don't recall any of them mentioning the affect that the moving magnetic poles can introduce.

    The magnetic...

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