One package I haven't seen mentioned here is Peregrine, which is what my IS group is migrating to sometime next year. Can anyone offer some insight as to how Peregrine compares???
True, but the trade magazines are full of articles like this. At least they are marginally better than advertisements due to there being at least a little bit of meat on the bones...
Of course, the situation can change over time. Take the situation San Francisco for example, where real estate got so expensive that teachers could no longer afford to live in their school districts, and the city looked into providing public housing for them. I love this quote from the linked article:
(HUD Spokesman Larry) Bush said his agency believes the program will also help attract new teachers.
Yay, become a teacher and go live in the projects! Where do I sign up???
And I've been trying to get rid of several pallets full of candles I've got sitting around the house, but haven't been able to find a truck suitable for the job. I need to get these out into the market, since I went to all that trouble to install RFID tags on each one...
You've basically just summarized one of the classic investing books, A Random Walk Down Wall Street. In the short-term, price movements are extremely volatile and incomplete information leaves speculators without adequate tools to succeed consistently...
This sounds like an ideal time for some evil villain to release the next SoBig or Slammer into the wild - all those techies skipping work to go to the movies...
That's exactly the issue that the industry has been grappling with over the last few years. All too often, an analyst from a large financial firm (i.e. Merrill Lynch) would ostensibly be generating reports for the investing public, but the investment banking wing of the company would place pressure to pump up those firms and help drive the IPO's and other financing transactions that bring in huge profits to the banker.
Bottom line: I wouldn't ever trust an analyst from an investment bank (go with the independents), and by all means don't just jump to the buy/sell recommendation. The real value of an analyst is to help better understand a company's business, and the likely impact that certain events will have on their prospects (for instance, how much profit can Sun reasonably expect to make on their new pricing scheme).
My point is that all too often, people get overly focused on technology. Sure, it may be interesting and challenging to implement a new web service for a particular function, but does it actually deliver tangible benefits compared to the existing solution? The challenge from an entreprenurial point of view is to envision a novel and viable business model and process, which may or may not rely on new technology to implement.
"To be successful in the business world today, you absolutely have to incorporate some sort of technology."
Well, not necessarily to the level most would have you believe. While the exception may prove the rule, this savings and loan gets by on the bare minimum and succeeds in a highly competitive business. In short, it's the business process that matters most, not the technology behind it.
Unlike Big Blue, SGI might not be well placed to fight a drawn-out legal battle with SCO. Revenue is declining, cashflow is negative, and the share price is circling the toilet bowl. And since the IBM/SCO case doesn't look like it will be resolved soon, you have to wonder how much resistance SGI can put up...
Just because they've pointed out theoritical weaknesses in P2P apps doesn't necessarily raise a "reasonable doubt" about any defendant's activities. Is there any evidence that these vulnerabilities are actually being exploited out there? If not, I don't think this would hold much weight in court...
Now THAT was hilarious! One can only assume that the "very high paying jobs" were for IP lawyers. This was surely the article referred to above, although they ought to have titled it, "the Little Litigators That Could."
I agree with a newspaper or book offering greater depth, but I find a happy medium in a good weekly magazine, particularly The Economist. Great writing, informed reporters, and a decidedly detached journalistic perspective seperate it from anything else I've seen out there. I used to subscribe, but had a hard time finishing each magazine by the time the next one arrived...
There's a small snippet in here, but it doesn't really meet the characterization you noted. It's more like basic newspaper reporting - a couple facts, a couple quotes, more a note about stock performance than anything else...
This will be a great benefit for people visiting Baltimore for conventions. The convention center (as I recall) is just a short walk from the inner harbor, so while taking a break from seminars and trade floor groupies, you can plug in without having to tromp back to your hotel...
make sure your boss is aware of the value you're adding to his bottom line
That, by far, is the best advice I've seen in this discussion so far. Too often, geeks get focused on technical accomplishments (optimized network traffic, or decreased latency on servers, etc.) without understanding or communicating what that means to the business as a whole in terms of hard dollars saved or productivity gains achieved. Keep an informal log of such achievements, and when the opportunity arises, make your boss aware of them, since he can then use them to justify his own employment to his boss.
Let's face it - very often, IT/IS work goes down some pretty unproductive paths, wasting a great deal of time and effort without making a significant difference to a company's performance. Since managers everywhere are looking to cut costs, it's best to make sure you're seen as indispensable.
Worse yet for @Stake, it's not like firing Geer is going to silence him. To paraphrase Obi Wan, by striking him down they gave him more press than they ever could...
that's not a good idea... you have to network if you want to get back into the workplace! Invite some other unemployed coders over and make it a party...
I've personally dealt with a wide variety of recruiters over the last few years, and only one has generally conducted himself in a proper, professional fashion (he's from MRI, which is a large firm with offices in several cities). In general, my experience has shown that you're best off dealing with a good-sized placement firm that's been in the game for a long time. Like other aspects of the 90's bubble, recruiting got flooded with resume-shufflers who were looking to make quick bucks by placing anybody and everybody with firms that were scooping up people left and right. By now, many of those prospectors have been driven out of the market. Just for kicks, though, here's a short list of some decidedly unprofessional recruiters I've worked with:
Shortly after introducing himself, asked me to sign a pledge declaring that I would not, under any circumstances, accept a counteroffer from my current employer.
One recruiter, who I had never met or spoken to, submitted my resume to the company I had just left two months previously! Not only that, but he grossly exaggerated my experience and qualifications.
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One package I haven't seen mentioned here is Peregrine, which is what my IS group is migrating to sometime next year. Can anyone offer some insight as to how Peregrine compares???
Maybe so, but it does reduce the available market for the sequels...
True, but the trade magazines are full of articles like this. At least they are marginally better than advertisements due to there being at least a little bit of meat on the bones...
Of course, the situation can change over time. Take the situation San Francisco for example, where real estate got so expensive that teachers could no longer afford to live in their school districts, and the city looked into providing public housing for them. I love this quote from the linked article:
(HUD Spokesman Larry) Bush said his agency believes the program will also help attract new teachers.
Yay, become a teacher and go live in the projects! Where do I sign up???
And I've been trying to get rid of several pallets full of candles I've got sitting around the house, but haven't been able to find a truck suitable for the job. I need to get these out into the market, since I went to all that trouble to install RFID tags on each one...
You've basically just summarized one of the classic investing books, A Random Walk Down Wall Street. In the short-term, price movements are extremely volatile and incomplete information leaves speculators without adequate tools to succeed consistently...
That's right, 40 accusations of copyright violations. In terms of actual violations, it was probably closer to 40,000 per month!
This sounds like an ideal time for some evil villain to release the next SoBig or Slammer into the wild - all those techies skipping work to go to the movies...
Wait a minute, I thought these guys were anti-MPAA and anti-RIAA, meaning they can only be powerful forces for good!
Arggggghhhhh
Binary world-view is breaking down as we speak...
Anaylists work for you as the investor.
That's exactly the issue that the industry has been grappling with over the last few years. All too often, an analyst from a large financial firm (i.e. Merrill Lynch) would ostensibly be generating reports for the investing public, but the investment banking wing of the company would place pressure to pump up those firms and help drive the IPO's and other financing transactions that bring in huge profits to the banker.
Bottom line: I wouldn't ever trust an analyst from an investment bank (go with the independents), and by all means don't just jump to the buy/sell recommendation. The real value of an analyst is to help better understand a company's business, and the likely impact that certain events will have on their prospects (for instance, how much profit can Sun reasonably expect to make on their new pricing scheme).
So if he then yelled "Jesus @#*!ing Christ!", was he just barking at his caddy?
My point is that all too often, people get overly focused on technology. Sure, it may be interesting and challenging to implement a new web service for a particular function, but does it actually deliver tangible benefits compared to the existing solution? The challenge from an entreprenurial point of view is to envision a novel and viable business model and process, which may or may not rely on new technology to implement.
"To be successful in the business world today, you absolutely have to incorporate some sort of technology."
Well, not necessarily to the level most would have you believe. While the exception may prove the rule, this savings and loan gets by on the bare minimum and succeeds in a highly competitive business. In short, it's the business process that matters most, not the technology behind it.
Unlike Big Blue, SGI might not be well placed to fight a drawn-out legal battle with SCO. Revenue is declining, cashflow is negative, and the share price is circling the toilet bowl. And since the IBM/SCO case doesn't look like it will be resolved soon, you have to wonder how much resistance SGI can put up...
"Maybe, but you still need talent.... :)"
Or at least a whole lotta drugs...
Just because they've pointed out theoritical weaknesses in P2P apps doesn't necessarily raise a "reasonable doubt" about any defendant's activities. Is there any evidence that these vulnerabilities are actually being exploited out there? If not, I don't think this would hold much weight in court...
Oh yeah, and IANAL.
Now THAT was hilarious! One can only assume that the "very high paying jobs" were for IP lawyers. This was surely the article referred to above, although they ought to have titled it, "the Little Litigators That Could."
I agree with a newspaper or book offering greater depth, but I find a happy medium in a good weekly magazine, particularly The Economist. Great writing, informed reporters, and a decidedly detached journalistic perspective seperate it from anything else I've seen out there. I used to subscribe, but had a hard time finishing each magazine by the time the next one arrived...
There's a small snippet in here, but it doesn't really meet the characterization you noted. It's more like basic newspaper reporting - a couple facts, a couple quotes, more a note about stock performance than anything else...
This will be a great benefit for people visiting Baltimore for conventions. The convention center (as I recall) is just a short walk from the inner harbor, so while taking a break from seminars and trade floor groupies, you can plug in without having to tromp back to your hotel...
Here you go!
make sure your boss is aware of the value you're adding to his bottom line
That, by far, is the best advice I've seen in this discussion so far. Too often, geeks get focused on technical accomplishments (optimized network traffic, or decreased latency on servers, etc.) without understanding or communicating what that means to the business as a whole in terms of hard dollars saved or productivity gains achieved. Keep an informal log of such achievements, and when the opportunity arises, make your boss aware of them, since he can then use them to justify his own employment to his boss.
Let's face it - very often, IT/IS work goes down some pretty unproductive paths, wasting a great deal of time and effort without making a significant difference to a company's performance. Since managers everywhere are looking to cut costs, it's best to make sure you're seen as indispensable.
Worse yet for @Stake, it's not like firing Geer is going to silence him. To paraphrase Obi Wan, by striking him down they gave him more press than they ever could...
that's not a good idea... you have to network if you want to get back into the workplace! Invite some other unemployed coders over and make it a party...
Shortly after introducing himself, asked me to sign a pledge declaring that I would not, under any circumstances, accept a counteroffer from my current employer.
One recruiter, who I had never met or spoken to, submitted my resume to the company I had just left two months previously! Not only that, but he grossly exaggerated my experience and qualifications.