I decided to go back for my MBA because, as much as I like the development stuff, I hate working in environments where managers who don't know anything about the technical stuff make the decisions that would often be best left to those who do know, and that seems to be the status quo...
The trade-off is becoming hands-off for coding, but gaining the ability to do the right thing for the company/department
We lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt
Of course, every situation is unique...but sometimes "go with Linux" is the right answer. I'm not suggesting everyone invest in some technology because it's the flavor-of-the-month, but is it totally implausable that sometimes, somewhere, for whatever reason, Linux is the right thing to do? Is that to hard to visualize?
What if I have a company with everything else I need on 'nix, except this one thing. Should I invest in new HR software for Windows, another box to run Windows, a Windows license, possibly a license for Access, or SQL Server, or IIS, or whatever the software requires to run?
There was once a time when Windows (or computers, for that matter) wasn't so hot for these tasks, either, but, hey, business adapted. It became the de facto thing to do. Markets shift and adapt according to need, and my experience says that there is a need, albeit small.
We lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt
When I was a yungin' we used to go to the local skid row bars on payday and offer them cash for their old arcade games...if business was slow, sometimes they'd bite. A friend of mine used to keep Track and Field in the back of his truck under a tarp, go to a friends house and run an extension cord out to it.
Moral:...um...I don't think there is one.
We lose the good we oft might win By fearing to attempt
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The trade-off is becoming hands-off for coding, but gaining the ability to do the right thing for the company/department
We lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt
We lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt
What if I have a company with everything else I need on 'nix, except this one thing. Should I invest in new HR software for Windows, another box to run Windows, a Windows license, possibly a license for Access, or SQL Server, or IIS, or whatever the software requires to run?
There was once a time when Windows (or computers, for that matter) wasn't so hot for these tasks, either, but, hey, business adapted. It became the de facto thing to do. Markets shift and adapt according to need, and my experience says that there is a need, albeit small.
We lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt
A friend of mine used to keep Track and Field in the back of his truck under a tarp, go to a friends house and run an extension cord out to it.
Moral:...um...I don't think there is one.
We lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt