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IT enters its most fertile development era ever

IT enters its most fertile development era everMany Americans want to.:shrug:Once our cost of living matches India's, America will be a competitive nation once again.editingInnovative is a verb now? You wrote:> The trends auspiciously portend less risk for businesses, both for entrepreneurs and enterprises alike, to innovative in ways that...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Development tools, information technology, software, Dana, development era, Fred Brooks, innovation

Discussion threads 2007-07-15

In defense of outsourcing

In defense of outsourcingFinally.. a clever, insightful look, rather than hyperventilating!Finally, the article I was waiting for. Enough of the hyperventilating about outsourcing, and the "MY job is being sent abroad" syndrome. Whoever said a particular job was anyone's birthright in the first place?! A job is a function of...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, software development, Fred Brooks, job, outsourcing

Discussion threads 2004-01-20

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Can open source software stop IT failure?

I'm not so sure #1 is valid#1 is a variation of "many eyes make all bugs shallow"Does it help? Yes. But it also makes the implicit assumption that everyone that can view the code is competent to do so. So it goes back to resource allocation being an issue, if...

Tags: Strategy, OPEN SOURCE, information technology, IT Failure, F/OSS, software, open-source software

Discussion threads 2009-10-26

Annual cost of IT failure: $6.2 trillion

I'm not buying their claims.. It looks like they're declaring all IT activities as a failure which is patently ridiculous.. The companies I support rarely experience a failure. I do the product evaluations up front and determine if a product is worthy of purchase and deployment. I use...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Strategy, software, CPU, information technology, IT Failure

Discussion threads 2009-09-30

Researcher+seeks+IT+failure+data

Researcher+seeks+IT+failure+dataGood luck!Nobody likes to admit to failures much more emotionally satisfying to think of them as partial successes. You might want to check back later to see how he does.Cant access the linkCant access the linkRE: Researcher seeks IT failure dataI'm still not sure this research will get to...

Tags: CANT ACCESS

Discussion threads 2008-02-08

Study: 'Huge jump' in Microsoft flaws since last year

Study: 'Huge jump' in Microsoft flaws since last yearComplete FUD...According to my rep, Microsoft software is completely secure. To prove my point, I have a Vista workstation here with Office 2007 and IE7. I removed the removable media devices and cemented the USB ports. We also removed the NIC. The...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Flaws, outsourcing, software

Discussion threads 2007-11-29

Agile development, early warning, Darwin, and failure

Agile development, early warning, Darwin, and failureUp The ChainI'm not sure identifying projects that are doomed to fail, either because they are too hard or have a delusional value proposition, are usually pretty easy to identify.But you do you convince the guy a few layers up that not only is...

Tags: Development tools, Agile Development, programmer, early warning, Darwin

Discussion threads 2007-11-25

Encyclopedia of American Cinema. FREE first chapter in the trial version (Mobile)

This illustrated Encyclopedia includes biographies of the best American directors and actors, reviews of the best American movies, and lists of awards. FREE first chapter in the trial version.Features Fully illustrated. Search for words or phrases. Navigate from Table of Contents or read page by page Add Bookmarks Text annotation...

Tags: Cinema, Mobile, Biology, Director, MobileReference, American

Software downloads 2007-09-27

When scripts become programs

When scripts become programsScripts ARE programsI do not see that there is any difference, in essence, between a script and an interpreted language. About the only difference I can see is that a script is a program "fragment", what in the old days we called a subroutine. On this basis...

Tags: Development tools, Scripting languages, Programming languages, programming, scripting language, programmer

Discussion threads 2006-07-21

Know the BIZ (Mobile)

This game pack includes 13 games for you to put your knowledge of Hollywood to the test. This gamepack includes: Movie Buff 1920-1960 hangman, Movie Buff 1960's hangman, Movie Buff 1970's hangman, Movie Buff 1980's hangman, Movie Buff 1990's hangman, Movie Buff 2000-2005 hangman, Movie Buff word search, Movie Buff...

Tags: Mobile, Knowledge, Hollywood, Movie, Movies, Big Punch Games, Classic 60, Classic 70, Classic 90, Games, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2004-12-11

SCO may raise 'Linux' license fees

SCO may raise 'Linux' license feesSCO's claims...are such a farce.If you lose money because you believed...hahaha.But how were you to know as Darl and Co. were supposed to tell the truth.It's funny how the media can't catch on which makes me wonder how really stupid ZDnet is being about other...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Linux, SCO Group Inc.

Discussion threads 2004-08-10

Panel: Shared work, not suits, key to open source

Panel: Shared work, not suits, key to open sourcePanel: Shared work, not suits, key to open source"LAS VEGAS--Open-source software is about more than free code and occasionally troublesome licensing models."Of course its about more than that, its about being a religious fanatic about Linsux and anyone who has a different...

Tags: Operating systems, open source, motivation, Unix

Discussion threads 2003-11-20