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Stanford Learns a Software Lesson

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the school-of-hard-knocks dept.

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 :)'."

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  1. Collective Hallucination by philntc · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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.

  2. Re:or not by tachin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Talk about wooden knives at the blacksmith's house...

  3. You know what they say... by BrianGa · · Score: 4, Funny

    'Those who can't do teach'

     And those who can't teach, teach gym.
    While those who can't teach gym, teach college.

  4. Re: Knuth 'Those who can't do teach' by e9th · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yup. If he could start with something as mundane as typesetting and come up with TeX, just imagine what he could do with ERP :)

  5. Or.. by MrPerfekt · · Score: 4, Funny

    Those that can't make the news, submit the news!

    --
    I just wasted your mod points! HA!