It must be a management skill. One place I worked for had a Xmas Party. The MC was dressed as an astronaut?! (It was for a hospital). They handed out Xmas awards to about ten people, the best in the company, who had worked on big projects. The awards were cardboard pyramids with the words 'UFO' on them.
It told us that they thought everyones contribution was a joke. Only not many people laughed!
I think you should aim to increase your focus on security during the bid process. Ask the customer to look at reference sites. If your customers are happy that will say quite a bit, but if the competitors old customers aren't happy that will say even more. Point out the holes in the other companies reference sites. You dont have to break in, just point out the holes that are there.
If they are interested in getting the best product, they will think a lot harder about your solution, but in the end, tragically, often these decisions are made because someone has a friend somewhere.
Our trouble in Australia is that we basically have a duoply. In the US you have cable companies fighting tooth and nail with the telcos to provide access to your home. In Australia our two telcos, Telstra and Cable and Wireless Optus are also the two main cable companies. Neither of them is in a hurry to slit their own throats by lowering prices. Telstra has plans to double it's number of internet users (Telstra's ISP, Bigpond is also the largest ISP) by 2002 with the introduction of 2Meg ADSL modems. Hopefully the pricing will be sweet so we can all sit behind pipes that are slighter larger than our 56K modems! James Eling
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It must be a management skill. One place I worked for had a Xmas Party. The MC was dressed as an astronaut?! (It was for a hospital). They handed out Xmas awards to about ten people, the best in the company, who had worked on big projects. The awards were cardboard pyramids with the words 'UFO' on them.
It told us that they thought everyones contribution was a joke. Only not many people laughed!
Is there any way that a PDA can have its location determined accurately within a wireless network?
If the position could be triangulated or something there would be a complete new genre of games for wireless PDAs.
I think you should aim to increase your focus on security during the bid process. Ask the customer to look at reference sites. If your customers are happy that will say quite a bit, but if the competitors old customers aren't happy that will say even more. Point out the holes in the other companies reference sites. You dont have to break in, just point out the holes that are there. If they are interested in getting the best product, they will think a lot harder about your solution, but in the end, tragically, often these decisions are made because someone has a friend somewhere.
Our trouble in Australia is that we basically have a duoply. In the US you have cable companies fighting tooth and nail with the telcos to provide access to your home. In Australia our two telcos, Telstra and Cable and Wireless Optus are also the two main cable companies. Neither of them is in a hurry to slit their own throats by lowering prices. Telstra has plans to double it's number of internet users (Telstra's ISP, Bigpond is also the largest ISP) by 2002 with the introduction of 2Meg ADSL modems. Hopefully the pricing will be sweet so we can all sit behind pipes that are slighter larger than our 56K modems! James Eling