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Stanford Learns a Software Lesson
Nick Irelan writes "In 1994 Stanford set aside $60 million to aquire the latest financial and management software from PeopleSoft and Oracle. However, the upgrade that was planned years ago is still not complete. Stanford has even begun outsourcing! 'Those who can't do teach :)'."
"Sometimes I look back and wonder if this wave of ERP software ... wasn't a collective hallucination," says Stanford CIO Chris Handley
That would have been Berkeley then, no? Home of LSD and UNIX IIRC.
Talk about wooden knives at the blacksmith's house...
'Those who can't do teach'
And those who can't teach, teach gym.
While those who can't teach gym, teach college.
Yeah I took a required course that was about half web design last semester and she spent half the course teaching us frames and tables when she should have been teaching us css since half of us were already familiar with html and the other half knew nothing and could just as easily have learned css as html. And this was a part time professor who is supposedly a web project manager for a big comapany.
I am so glad I am taking time away from school at least this way I will not spend 3 years learning how things are really done after I graduate.
Yup. If he could start with something as mundane as typesetting and come up with TeX, just imagine what he could do with ERP :)
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I just wasted your mod points! HA!
If an English prof saw the horrible butchering of the language that goes on here, their head would explode.