This question came up today. Actually it came up a while back and I finally looked at the message today. What if Microsoft made refrigerators? The question is an apt one for business systems which is why so few MBAs think to ask it. If Microsoft made refrigerators they would periodically require a manual reboot, everything in them would spoil and you would just accept that. Well, you would accept it until you found out … What if Microsoft Made Refrigerators?Read more
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The Ever Shrinking Definition of Fully Equipped
As a traveling consultant I spend a lot of time in extended stay type hotels. Unless I’m traveling to a client site where I’ve worked previously I tend to spend the first month or more at these types of places. It is best to leave both yourself and the client an escape hatch. Sadly many of these types of places either don’t bother to read the IRS per-diem publications or believe the combined food and … The Ever Shrinking Definition of Fully EquippedRead more
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If You Ran OpenVMS You Wouldn’t Have to Be Outraged
I almost couldn’t write this post. My sides hurt from laughing so hard. This story about Google being outraged by the NSA hacking is absolutely hilarious! Seriously??? You run a business on a “free” OS on a joke-of-the-industry CPU and you are outraged you got hacked? I got news for you, the source is available to everyone. Much of the code which goes in gets written by people who are unemployed and may not even … If You Ran OpenVMS You Wouldn’t Have to Be OutragedRead more