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- Study: 68% of IT projects fail
- Study: 68% of IT projects failI used to work for the federal government......we never got anywhere near a 32% success rate. More like 10%.This is OK since IT in US is not a business but humanitarian aid to India.ntRE: Study: 68% of IT projects failIs this problem down to the...
- Tags: Strategy, Now Let, IT Projects Fail, PMI, IAG, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-12-11
- Software as a service: It should be the best of times, but it isn't
- Software as a service: It should be the best of times, but it isn'tVista apathyI reckon that people are so p****ed off with computing because of the hold of a certain monopoly delivering absolutely nothing of value for so long that it will take a couple of years before SaaS...
- Tags: Software as a Service (SaaS), cloud computing, software-as-a-service, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-11-05
- Reviewing an IRS web services report
- Reviewing an IRS web services reportWhere's Anton?This is a great example of his "empower the users" by letting them run whatever M$ software they "need" on their PCs. To hell with those big bad IT admins - we'll just do it ourselves! Unfortunately now the security of the entire IRS...
- Tags: Web servers, Servers, Web service, server, Web server, Murph, Internal Revenue Service
- Discussion threads 2008-09-10
- Why there's a software support and maintenance revolution underway
- Why there's a software support and maintenance revolution underwayGood article, Larry.Software companies are running out of ways to make you buy their latest version. There just isn't anything in newer versions that increase productivity. So they have to raise their revenue somewhere.I think it is better for companies to hire...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, Internal IT, database manager, software, maintenance revolution
- Discussion threads 2008-08-19
- Who's responsible?
- Who's responsible?Murph finds a kindred spiritCongratulations. You found a quote with a Murph-style error in logic.Here's the situation: People eat enough bread to satisfy their need for calories, then use their remaining food money on meat. Less effective, more enjoyable.The price of bread goes up. The...
- Tags: Anton, bread, Murph, meat
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- Open source as the villain in its own story
- Open source as the villain in its own storyhuh?I read a lot of words there, but failed to discern any content!Value of a brandMicrosoft spends so much assuring it remains one of the top 3 most respected and approved brands in the world because sales are increased by trust. ...
- Tags: Branding, brand, goodwill, Microsoft Corp., real dollar, open source, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-05-06
- OLPC ready to scrap Linux??
- OLPC ready to scrap Linux??XPEOMDon't you know?He swears by BeOS!What "annual tax" are you refering to?[i]having to pay an annual tax to Microsoft for software updates[/i]I receive my updates for free. How do those on the OLPC unit differ?So what would they run on it?Vista? LOLRather extreme positionFundamentalists are always...
- Tags: Operating systems, Third-World government, Fundamentalists, One Laptop Per Child project, Linux?, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Corp., Linux, software
- Discussion threads 2008-04-23
- Microsoft Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance test
- Microsoft Office 2007 fails OOXML conformance testYes Microsoft said this months agoThey have not yet changed Office to keep up with spec changes negotiated during the ISO standardization process. They have long ago made announcements regarding this and their plans for bringing it into compliance.I can't decide which was more...
- Tags: ISO standards, Process improvement, Microsoft Corp., Office Open XML, Microsoft Office, ISO, software, Microsoft Office 2007
- Discussion threads 2008-04-21
- Evaluating large IT project proposals
- Evaluating large IT project proposalsExcellent catalog of failuresBut if we assume that any large IT Project Proposal is going to be a failure, why not just reject it without evaluation?What does a proposal for a successful project look like?RE: Evaluating large IT project proposalsPaul, I wonder if there are any...
- Tags: Linux, Word processors, OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Office, INCLUDING Microsoft, large IT project proposal, IT Project Proposal, European anti-Americanism, Evaluating, Corel WordPerfect, information technology
- Discussion threads 2008-02-22
- 12 spam research projects that WON'T make a difference
- 12 spam research projects that WON'T make a differenceWell might as well get this out of the way now...Non_Zealot hasn't shown up yet but I'm sure he will, so here's a pre-emptive strike: Snicker, smirk, sneer, sputter, spew, spit, spasm... :DThere's no easy way... to do a hard...
- Tags: Cyberthreats, spam, Jerry Davis, spammer
- Discussion threads 2007-11-21
- Programming Heresy
- Programming HeresyIs there any point to your blog anymore Murph?...other than to prove to everyone that you are suffering from a serious case of "Sun Persecution Complex" (see [url=http://catb.org/jargon/html/A/Amiga-Persecution-Complex.html]here[/url]).Great"Then I made things worse by telling them that a modern equivalent would use PHP with Apache and PostGresSQL and take perhaps...
- Tags: Scripting languages, PHP, Java, programming
- Discussion threads 2007-10-30
- Remember LOGO? It still lives at 40!
- Remember LOGO? It still lives at 40!Wow, 40 years!My memories of Logo are pretty much the same as the author of the Wired piece. But Logo is clearly showing its' age, especially in the face more modern replacements like Squeak. Still, it serves nicely as a very basic introduction...
- Tags: Development tools, Games, programming, Remember LOGO
- Discussion threads 2007-10-17
- Is Linux innovative?
- Is Linux innovative?"innovation" - bah!Just what IS innovation? I always thought that innovation is the poor stepchild to invention - i.e. If you aren't good enough to invent something new, maybe you can fiddle with something existing to "improve" it. Henry Ford had his "campouts" with Thomas Edison (and other...
- Tags: Leadership, Strategy, UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp., innovation, LINUX IS, Linux, GNU/Linux
- Discussion threads 2007-09-28
- A call from a former colleague
- A call from a former colleagueAh yes, the late 80'sIt was just me - and a ComputerVision "low boy" server in a cubicle. The heat it put out was overwhelming - but I took it in stride. I was basically told - there is the computer, make it work. In...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Operating systems, Desktops, information technology, emulator, Internet Service Provider, Unix, server, PC
- Discussion threads 2007-09-18
- Last-minute request for extension of Microsoft settlement
- Last-minute request for extension of Microsoft settlementPoor FireFox.Impossible to gain a market, even to attract interest, against the stranglehold og Internet Explorer. To almost everyone, IE is the internet, and alternates need not apply.Who does Microsoft serve?The State of California or CONSUMERS? In the end, Microsoft has an...
- Tags: Web browsers, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Discussion threads 2007-09-12
- Is Google Apps now a real Microsoft Office competitor?
- Is Google Apps now a real Microsoft Office competitor?How to justify the investment.Google has decided to use (squander?) substantial resources on these applications. Perhaps the decision to do so was based on the effects on morale or a nouveau riche "I can afford it, I'll do it." exuberance.But now...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp., real Microsoft Office competitor, IBM Corp., Google Apps
- Discussion threads 2007-09-10
- Ubuntu servers hacked to attack others
- Ubuntu servers hacked to attack othersYeah.Anyone thinking of running a net facing server, get an Expert. I would assume that these people were college students doing it for free but after some of the things I've seen (who in the hell uses a while(1) loop in production software?) I'm not...
- Tags: Linux, Servers, Operating systems, UNIX, Anton, Stupidity, server, Canonical, security, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-08-15
- Novell CEO Calls For New Linux Distro ISV Standard, Praises FSF
- Novell CEO Calls For New Linux Distro ISV Standard, Praises FSFWhat about this Ron !http://www.boycottnovell.com/You are doing everything you can to destroy Linux. Thanks!Enforcing order.de facto standards are influential. Red Hat controls the commercial Linux market so thoroughly that Oracle may have the right idea of how to create...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Quality, Operating systems, Free Software Foundation, Linux, Red Hat Inc., standards, Novell Inc., LSB
- Discussion threads 2007-08-08
- Is software a form of applied mathematics?
- Last week's licensing discussions sprouted an interesting, if off topic, thread on a number of computer language related issues. One of the issues raised strikes me as fairly fundamental: is software a form of applied mathematics?Here's how occasional contributor b3timmons stated one side of this argument in response to...
- Tags: Development
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
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