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Author: Markus Perdrizat

  • Contrarian Analysts

    You know why an analyst sometimes go all in on contrarian opinions? Because if they turn out to have been right, they get all the recognition for having been the first to see a new trend. And if they were wrong, then it’s just one more time they weren’t 100% right. The only drawback is…

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  • Programmer Time Translation Cheatsheet

    Programmer Time Translation Cheatsheet -or- Why Programmers Are Bad at Estimating Times. Anders Abel explaining the difference between Estimate and Actual Time, and What the Programmer Forgot… nice one!

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  • Hours, Velocity, Silo’d Teams, & Gantts

    Sounds familiar… lots of good advice from Johanna Rothman! These Scrum Master/project manager/program manager people have their hearts in the right places. But they have not had training, and they don’t know what agile can do for them. So while their iterations are helping them and their projects, they look around and say, “Why is…

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  • TOUCH TIME: Digital Watch with Touch Screen

    I bought this one: TOUCH TIME: Digital Watch with Touch Screen by Donald Brewer. Next generation digital watch with a touch screen, Smartphone-like watch apps, “always on” display, and you never need to charge it.    

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  • With the Aid of a Computer…

    …you can make an error that would have taken you years to do by hand. Very well said! Knight Capital Trading Glitch Cost It $440 Million – $10 million a minute. Ouch! They also say that On any given day, between 15% and 20% of all trades on the NYSE and NASDAQ went through Knight…

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  • Oracle 12c Speculation

    Oracle RDBMS 12c speculation by Curt Monash: Thoughts on the next releases of Oracle and Exadata. Curious to see how much they’ll really be able to pull out to make a credible cloud offering… or if Oracle’s architecture and code base is just too much Enterprise and not enough Cloud.

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  • Invest in Legacy, Invest in the Mainframe

    Don’t discard the mainframe just yet… it’s hard to come by unbiased opinions in this question, but – are there any major banks running the backbone of their operations on non-mainframe systems? Mainframe shops that invest in getting current with operating systems and software can run mainframes at lower cost than those that don’t. Investing…

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  • Nexus Q: On the importance of failing fast

    I’ve been thinking about failure culture and innovation quite a bit recently. Here’s another good example: Google’s cancellation of the Nexus Q launch was a surprise to me, even though I expected its introduction to be an utter disaster. The surprise […] was that even a company like Google […] would do the same with…

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  • IaaS Pricing Patterns and Trends

    About Amazon as price dictator in IaaS: It is also interesting […] to observe the degree to which pricing strategies are clearly built around, or in relation to, Amazon. The data also suggests that exceptions to this pattern are generally enterprise market providers, most obviously IBM, which tend to target customers who historically have had…

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  • Windows 8 is RTM

    Windows 8 has reached the RTM milestone. Maybe I’ll look into building a home server with it… I’m really not looking forward to using it on the desktop though!

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