Terrible analogy.. Your wife complains about you being away so you tell her to shut up becuase military families have it worse? Yeah... when my kids are hungry, I'll tell them to quit complaining because some kid in Africa is worse off....
There is an obvious difference between things we can and the things we can't control. My example is clearly the former, and is much more analogous than yours.
Oh, and I learned a long time ago that "shut up" doesn't go over too well with my wife, unless I want to get smacked.
So I have to click a mailto link rather than letting me copy and paste the email address? I don't have a mail client set up on this machine. Good one....
Change "rich white tech workers" to "Mulsim" or "Indian". People move, things change, if you've got a problem with white techy folk driving house prices up then I'm sure you also have a problem with various amounts of South Asian immigration driving house prices down.
Anti-immigration / anti-change is stupid. Nobody would be where they are today if change never happened. Get off my lawn.
I used to work for Accenture as a technical consultant.
Having read both complaints, I'm on Oracles side more than the Oregons.
On so many big IT projects I would see the client constantly change requirements, be very vague, change stakeholders who then completely move the goal posts and effectively hold the project back for large periods of time.
It's not surprise that large projects fail when you see the state of most large clients.
This highlights a much larger problem. Our processes for delivering large IT projects need a radical change in order to stop toxic stakeholders tanking whole projects.
However, Some of Oracle's products are shit and do fuck all out of the box despite what the sales people say.
I dont know, what you read. But I read, that Oracle shut the door until three months before the scheduled release. Oracle is the specialist on software development and not their client. So if Oracle says not otherwise, they have to deliver. If those allegations are true, Oracle is to blame for the majority.
Or do you want to lead your local bakery in how your breads are made? The baker has to know, when and how to include the client, because he/she is the specialist.
I read the Oracle complaint in full (unlike you). Some of the staff at Oregon were modifying software config on production servers which totally circumvented Oracle release procedures... Oregon would not lock down solid requirements... Stakeholders and requirements would change frequently and existing work would be rendered obsolete.
I've worked with those kind of badly managed clients before. They likely ignored Oracle's advice, came up with nonsense strategies and requirements then kept being vague about the details.
Go and keep turning you bakers over off or requesting crazy ingredients that should never go into mixture (against the bakers advice) and see what kind of bread you get.
If you find yourself regularly having to force that kind of behaviour out of a language that doesn't support it, you're using the wrong language or you have a bad design.
Yes, that is exactly what Apple did with the iPhone. They wrote the interface then tested it over and over again and made optimisations on every iteration.. This was before it was released to the general public.
The article is talking about optimising before you can prove where the problems are... Apple had excellent testing which showed where a lot of issues were. Some issues may well have not been discovered until a wider audience had access though.
Testing can happen before you release a product you know? You new fangled startup MVP types only think good testing happens on paying customers. Fuck you guys.
Interestingly, Grainger are using an off the shelf ecommerce platform called hybris. I imagine they made (or got someone to make) many modifications to its extended functionality though.
I enjoy a wonderful and varied diet since I moved near the coast in Australia... some days I would just rather not have to eat though (various reasons). For these days, why not use Soylent?
Your comment is based on absolutely nothing aside from a little Balmer bashing. It's unlikely that he's selling because he thinks MSFT will under-perform, he's selling because he doesn't want the stock anymore therefore Balmer being replaced as CEO is unlikely to be an influencing factor.
I'm not arguing about Balmer, I'm saying that Bill's decision is probably nothing to do with Balmer or the state of the company. Why don't you re-read my original comment?
Here; I've highlighted the key parts for you:
" he's selling because he doesn't want the stock anymore therefore Balmer being replaced as CEO is unlikely to be an influencing factor."
Many things have happened since Aug 23rd that could affect the stock price. It's ridiculous to claim that such a change over such a timespan is due to only one event.
When Microsoft's new CEO Satya Nadella was selected, among the specific points he mentioned was an increased role to be played in the company by Bill Gates as "Technology Advisor":
Microsoft also announced that Bill Gates, previously Chairman of the Board of Directors, will assume a new role on the Board as Founder and Technology Advisor, and will devote more time to the company, supporting Nadella in shaping technology and product direction. John Thompson, lead independent director for the Board of Directors, will assume the role of Chairman of the Board of Directors and remain an independent director on the Board.
As Alex Schleber (just some guy, but insightful IME) put it on G+:
But MOST WORRISOME of all is what he says next! - "I'm thrilled that Satya has asked me to step up, substantially increasing the time that I spend at the company... I'll have over a third of my time available to meet with product groups... and it will be fun to define this next round of products working together...".
YIKES! Precisely the thing that any outside CEO candidate was dreading, and likely making moving both Ballmer and Gates off the board a precondition for anyone to even consider the challenge (compare here: www.mondaynote.com/2013/12/08/microsoft-ceo-search-stalemate/ ).
