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Greed, Arrogance, Inexperience, and Stupidity

Greed, Arrogance, Inexperience, and StupidityWhen customers and vendors try to take advantage of one anotherMicrosoft or some of their henchmen are usually being profiled.It's just business as usual, you understand? Nothing personal as long as you shut up and sit down.

Tags: inexperience

Discussion threads 2008-06-19

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Apple drops (another) Mac OS X security patch

The patch to fix the patch that fixed the patch that Jack builtI laugh and I laugh and I laugh at those who suggest that people have to patch Windows more frequently than OS X. Those same people will then turn around and cheer Apple for releasing patches "as soon...

Tags: Patches, Emperor, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Macintosh, Apple Mac OS, Apple Inc., vulnerability, patch, OSX, security

Discussion threads 2009-08-12

Red Hat version 5.3 released

Red Hat version 5.3 releasedUpdate everything with a package manager# yum update -ySame old crap from......Loverock. Linux is too complicated for someone of his inexperience and overall lack of knowledge. No kernel panic, no segfault etc. He doesn't understand that the Linux of today updates as easily as...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, V Day, Linucks Distro, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Red Hat Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-01-21

Microsoft study debunks phishing profitability

Do phishers actually make money, or is phishing an unprofitable business, scammers lose time and resources into? Taking the economic approach of generalizing how much money phishers make, a recently released study by Microsoft researchers Cormac Herley and Dinei Florencio (A Profitless Endeavor: Phishing as Tragedy of the Commons), states...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Phishing, Cyberthreats, Spam, Viruses And Worms, Security, Spam And Phishing, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-01-08

Dissecting an Agile project from Hell

Dissecting an Agile project from HellSOWs and ScopeJust read it - very nice. I have often found a desire by some consultants to keep the scope very broadly defined in the SOW. The project is Agile so scope is variable and this is perfect, right? ...

Tags: Team management, Agile

Discussion threads 2008-10-27

Rescuing Twitter's trainwreck

Update 6/2/08 7:00PM EDT: Twitter is working well at the moment. Will it last? Twitter's problems continue and are not likely to be fixed for months. The system's fundamental architecture is flawed, management is grasping at straws to figure out what's wrong, and...

Tags: Twitter, Strategy, Project Management, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Team Management, Recruitment & Selection, Management, It Operations, It service Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-06-01

Twitter: An IT failures management perspective

Twitter, the well-known social messaging service, has finally acknowledged the depth and severity of technical problems causing downtime and disruption to users. While such candor is refreshing, it also offers a glimpse into the kinds of management issues that underlie virtually all IT failures. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Twitter, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-05-26

Sleazy sales and the Rockwell Retro Encabulator

Many project failures can be traced to a vendor making outlandish claims which the customer accepts hook, line, and sinker. In these situations hope, greed, fear, inexperience, and denial come together as ingredients for a spectacular flame-out. With that mind, take a look at this sales pitch...

Tags: Rockwell, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Corporate Communications, Sales, Marketing, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-05-02

Hints of Apple's new strategies in its Q3 financial call

Setting aside the news of a very strong quarter â€" stronger than predicted and accomplished in a consumer market worried over the emerging economic slowdown aka recession â€" Apple revealed renewed strength in some key segments and geographies. At the same time, executives gave a hint of Apple's vision of...

Tags: Strategy, Financial, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Notebooks, Desktops, Sales, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2008-04-24

Psystar: We're sorry but the store is down (again)

Psystar: We're sorry but the store is down againPush on!This is one story I would like to see develop. I believe that Psystar is a small startup company. Though they are trying to maintain a presence, it sometimes can be difficult under fire.I have been where they are...

Tags: Desktops, Psystar, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2008-04-18

Are IT malpractice suits around the corner?

Are IT malpractice suits around the corner?Merchantability is implied in any...product. It can not be written out in a contract or license. It is time for IT vendors, software or hardware or any combination, to be held financially accountable for their actions. Everyone else in the world is held...

Tags: Outsourcing, Malpractice, MERCHANTABILITY, malpractice, Andersen Consulting, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-04-03

Facebook: Revolution, Weed and Philanthropy

At the risk of endlessly re boiling the cabbage on the now infamous Sarah Lacy interview of Mark Zuckerberg at SXSW, it is worth highlighting some pretty important things he had to say on Facebook & corporate philanthropy before the reporter became the bigger part of the story.  The flippant style of interview...

Tags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Web 2.0, Government, Homeland Security, Strategy, Internet, Management, James Farrar

Blog posts 2008-03-21

Advice for the MCSE: go back to school

Advice for the MCSE: go back to schoolThat's my plan.I read most posts on this blog, and to be honest, I find it hard to agree with a lot of what you say. Sometimes I wonder if you live in an alternate universe to mine, linked by some freak blog...

Tags: .NET, Blogging, Benefits, Obama, salary, Microsoft .NET, blog

Discussion threads 2008-03-03

Scoble's Apple rant

Scoble's Apple rantSorry Adrian, I'll have to skip this one...I don't own any Apple products, and I sure don't listen to anything that Winer's little buddy has to say (yea, I dropped his feed late last year myself). I still have yours though :-)Incoming!...............(dives for cover....)Arbiters of CoolApple exists...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Apple Inc., Scoble

Discussion threads 2007-11-18

Oracle's double standards

Oracle has allegedly invited 30 bloggers to its Oracle OpenWorld event. Yay - they get the value of independent analysis...or do they? Check Jake Kuramoto's blog on the topic: Oracle has extended an invitation to leaders in the blogging community, who can come experience the pageantry of an entire...

Tags: Back Story, Blogger, Blogging, Conversation, Corporate Communications, Dennis Howlett, Internet, Jeff, Marketing, Mike Krigsman, Oracle Corp., Public Relations, SAP AG, Standards

Blog posts 2007-10-15

The ERP devil's triangle

According to recent research, almost half of all software development projects are challenged: they run over-budget, miss deadlines, and so on. With this in mind, I read Larry Dignan's blog post, "ERP on a budget: Is it possible?" with great interest. Larry is ZDNet's Executive Editor, and he presents several...

Tags: ERP, Consulting, ERP Devil, Larry, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Software, Software, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2007-10-09

What if I get hit by a bus?

After reading Marc Wagner's post "Don’t be fooled, Linux is not free," I was struck by a few items. First and foremost, Marc is right. Linux is not a panacea. It doesn't take away the cost of doing business and it certainly requires a degree of expertise,...

Tags: Open Source, K-12, Education Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-09

6 reasons not to switch to Safari on a PC

6 reasons not to switch to Safari on a PCSafari is truly a double edged swordYou are right in the fact that it can help the iPhone in AJAX development. But it can hinder Mac sales, (Yet I know of no one who claims to use Safari.) Developers...

Tags: Web browsers, PC, Apple Safari, Web browser

Discussion threads 2007-06-18

Could you say 'Unix' in Ada?

Could you say 'Unix' in Ada?Leaky AbstractionsWhat you are argueing is that Unix is full of leaky abstractions instead of sound design principles, so a largely unsafe systems programming language should be used to write application software.I think you are very wrong.Unix promotes enforced isolation of components (strong process isolation,...

Tags: Programming languages, C/C++, Operating systems, Ada, Unix, C

Discussion threads 2007-06-06

Perhaps Google will buy Salesforce.com after all

My starting point is that I want to be skeptical about the rumors of a potential alliance between Google and Salesforce.com. Remember last September's alliance of Intuit and Google?. Did that go anywhere? Hell no, despite some characteristically idle speculation last month from Nick Carr that Google should buy Intuit....

Tags: Google, Salesforce.com

Blog posts 2007-05-22