Tony Parfitt-465405 (8/7/2013)

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Perhaps the standard / enterprise licensing model is more about ease of enforcement than anything else. A lot easier to tie size limits to a particular edition than...

This is an absolute massive problem where I work as well.

Doubtless I suffer from it as well. I continually hear people expressing opinion as fact.

A start from which debate may...

Phil - I thought it was a great article. 100% with you.

There is still a massive need for good concise summary of existing systems. I am continually disappointed by many...

The latest MS gig of software as a service strikes me as companies trying to hold onto their IP and dressing it up as good for the user….

Don't get me...

Very true but at its best work is progressing society. So working hard and providing for your family may not be completely contradictory.

But yes chose your battles progressing society is...

I think your solution is clearly a better implementation.

I think MS in particular has sometimes just fallen short when polishing off the UI implementation of otherwise good ideas which is...

Well after visiting the science museum in London and having been in Paris at the Louvre two weeks prior I ironically noted that the Sumerians who lived 4500 years ago...

Software will be the last bastion of hand made manufacturing and it is experiencing all the problems associated with that method of construction.

Tortuous time scales

Unpredictable project outcomes.

Inconsistency of quality even...

Good luck and thanks for starting these off.

I am attending SQLSaturday in Edinburgh on the 8th of June

Knowledge Draftsman (5/23/2013)

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This reminds me of an article I came across earlier in my career... The gist of the piece was that every employee should know how to do their...

First point is we seem to quickly forget that numbers and text...

You could argue that it's a great opportunity to give a bit more responsibility to some of the people you've hopefully been allowed to train up in your place.

I've been...

From my perspective in accounting it's very interesting to contrast the discipline of BI with...

I've never liked the term Business Intelligence mainly because I think it’s a reinvention of what all DBAs always knew. If you have to be instructed on why BI is...

Given the significant problems much new software has with 2d interfaces seems somewhat premature to move onto 3d interfaces.

As it stands some of Google's outside projects seem diverse and somewhat...