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What Does Software Quality Mean?

In an earlier post, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst’s critique of software quality and the software industry as a whole was examined. Whitehurst highlighted three aspects of quality – the number of program bugs, high prices / costs, and the … Continue reading

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Are you ready for some takeovers?

Life in the ERP software business is about to get interesting once again as Infor hires a new CEO. Charles Phillips moves from Oracle to Infor where he is expected to restart the acquisition machine (more than 70 since 2002) … Continue reading

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Software Quality Defined: Build What Your Customers Need

InformationWeek reports Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst’s condemnation of the software industry. Whitehurst catalogs a long list of industry ills including overpricing, a lack of productivity improvement in development organizations, and unimproved quantities of program bugs in commercial software. The … Continue reading

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The 70’s are Back

Ray Wang analyzes the enterprise technology market at his Software Insiders blog. He compares Oracle’s acquisition of Sun to IBM in the 1970s. The impact — the tech industry reverts back to the beginning of a 40 year innovation cycle. … Continue reading

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Time to Stock up on Popcorn

This will be fun to watch, at least if you are not a customer of these behemoths (then antacids may be more appropriate). Larry Ellison launched a new verbal war against anything but Oracle as the big technology firms crank … Continue reading

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Underinvestment in Information Technology?

Information Week’s Top 500 issue includes highlights of several provocative academic research articles concerning the value of information technology in businesses. The research is directed by Kevin Kobelsky of Baylor’s Hankamer School of Business, and is available for downloading at … Continue reading

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Manufacturers Coming Home?

William J. Holstein makes the case for returning manufacturing to America in the latest issue of CEO Magazine. He focuses on two main reasons: China is no longer cheap, and long supply chains are too slow. In a way, Holstein … Continue reading

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Oops, I Should Have Upgraded

Last weekend I had an opportunity to ride along as the 128th Air Refueling Wing ran a training exercise. The mission was to refuel two Wisconsin Air National Guard F15s in flight — and the flight crew went out of … Continue reading

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Resources for Employers of National Guard and Reserve Members

The Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) is a Defense Department organization that helps both employers and employees understand the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). The ESGR role is to inform and educate as a … Continue reading

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Avoiding ERP Mistakes

In Monday’s Wall Street Journal (8/23/10), Albert Segars and Dave Chatterjee address ERP project problems: Too many executives see ERP solely as a technology project, believing that if they buy a new software system, inefficiencies will magically disappear. It is … Continue reading

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