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Took a driving trip to California this past weekend and sort of fell off the grid - well, the blog grid. I did send and receive emails but for the most part, I was busy with family and reconnecting with old friends.
Chris, Sara, Me, and Jess Life moves on in unexpected ways and for me, the connections have become vital - learning to discover what/who I am in all of this. More on this later but I am finding that there is some good advice out there. A reader and blogger, Amber, has provided some of the most painfully insightful perspective. Add to that her penchant for great music, and she makes the list as a new favorite blogger. You can catch her over at her Charming My Life blog. |
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"Only when the Systems Engineer can walk in the moccasins of the user does the engineer
have a right to design a system for the user."
- Bryce's Law
The subject of current systems analysis is usually greeted with dismay or disdain
by systems departments. There are many reasons for this. In many installations,
the support of current systems takes more than 85% of the systems department's time,
and the departments are more than ready to get on with new systems development and
bury the old, non-working systems as quickly as possible. In cases where systems do
not require a lot of maintenance, the systems department may find that the current
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If you've got a brief case full of US dollars then the United States is the cheapest place to buy DataStage but some countries will set you back more than double that.
A couple weeks ago I posted how IBM Switches Information Server Pricing to Processor Value Unit Licensing. Instead of buying a 4 CPU DataStage license for US$240K and adding extra CPUs to it you just pay per CPU and you can start with just one. Instead of buying two Server Edition CPUs and adding more you can buy just one for a bargain price starting at US$250K list price.
Disclaimer: enterprise software list prices are negotiable and are just a guide. Different countries can have different approaches to pricing based on business practice and the culture of haggling. Some countries add tax, dut |
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LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology
Well, we're here at ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008 in New Orleans. Sunday was a mini-day for me as it involved recovering from 2 days in a car with with an infant, a 5 year old and a tired wife. ;-) It also involved fresh boiled crawfish, etouffee, gumbo and jambalaya. I did make it to a session though but it was a session for presenters and ambassadors.
Monday was a better day for technology. I attended several sessions, all of them related to either SQL Developer, ApEx or ADF/Java.
In the ApEx world, I got to see John Scott present on ApEx Tips and Techniques. It's good to see someone excited about the topic they are presenting on. ApEx is an excellent tool and John is one of the leaders with it. This was a particularly in |
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And here we go on the road again! After a superb IBM Symposium 2008 event in Lucerne, Switzerland, from where, very shortly, I hope to be able to share with you folks, both the slide deck I used as well as a recording of both video and audio (Thus stay tuned for more details to become available whenever I get my hands on a copy of it!), I am now back in Spain, in Madrid, to be more precise, where tomorrow I will be spending the whole day long participating at the Lotus General Business Sales Academy for Business Partners.
This is an special event that till take place during the course of the entire day and where a bunch of IBM fellow colleagues will spend a fully packed agenda talking about everything IBM Lotus related world with Business Partners, going from what the market is like he |
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