Posts by NobbyNobbs 21 publicly visible posts • joined 15 May 2011
Yep, this machine is they they have added a keyboard using mac style butterfly keys on to a notirous dead flesh keyed system and ended up with is a flipping lovley keyboard feel that is up there with decent laptop keyboards and certainly feels like it's too nice for a kickstarter.
Its usually run adpatch, test, apply new patches, tweak the occasional CEMLI and patch again. Rinse and repeat.
Works for each R12 upgrade I did. 11i to 12 was a little more involved but was treading new grounds in 2009.
Id wonder how they cope with customisations as they are pretty much barred from cloud. I think even DFFs are removed now.
You have forgot two important aspects:
1- Using the buzzwords Disruptive Technology (i think that means assaulting someone with a mobilephone)
2 - Walking around with a sense of entitlement and wondering why people arn't climbing over each other to give you money.
Of course you also need some crapoy mobile phone app that foes things like draw moustashes on cats.
It wont make any difference in the end. Big corporates will upgrade as the consultancies and auditors will scare them about compliance and risk. Many IT managers will get another year of safe employmemt managing the upgrade.. Contractors will make a nice killing in the migration, companies will make a nice killing on upgrades for incompatible software. The money will keep churning around as Microsoft dictates the PC sales market (which is what this really is evidence of). MS & hardware are desparate to get the upgrade cycle kick started again as they have shot them selves in the foot pushjng "the cloud save your day".
Smaller companies who cant afford to will retain old PCs and run windows 7 well beyond end of life, some may move to Linux, more will move to Apple (in the end commercial support is considered king of compliance).
Its the same old "Keen novice who thinks wiggling a mouse and using Excel (and maybe a bit of Access) makes you an IT professional. As already said here, its when it goes tits up or they didn't think they needed backups "cos its in eth clowd so safe" or the developer doing it to budget rushed or bodged documentation that they realise a good team of skilled staff is what they needed.
A better model is to centralise the IT function (its a function OF BUSINESS not a separate entity) and get them bringing on additional developers as needed to make sure they are properly managed and don't deliver ropey shite that needs them in again to get paid again to come back in and fix it.
With trading services such as power etc you are trading the delivery of something, e.g. Electricity. With hosted services you are sending them stuff to process not the other way?
With servers although they are trading contracts for usage of server tin, aren't they actually trading who gets the contract to hold & process your data?
I can see this going very badly.
For some reason I read that as "he'd do things that lose money and focus on things that make money" which seems to be more like they typical CEO.
This whole debacle has come about by some self prompting analyst spouting off and morphed into an "Elop is doing this" via crap news articles and blogs. If its did turn out this way, xbox would be boned as a stand alone product as it I would end up needing a feck load of corporate licensing for the buyers in the future let alone how they would deal with the servers. The PS4 and Steam box would kill it in a year sadly.
makes some sense to ditch bing which I suspect gets most queries from people who don't know how to change their default search engine.
of course it depends on if they think brand and market share are important and have a value.
*that* king was tryin to demonstrate that no one was above god. So I think you aretty much spot on with the corrected spelling name.
I remeber watching V for vendetta and thinking John Hurt looked just like blair
ironic really tha a labour leader was the 2nd comming of thatcher, even to the point of having a wek leader follow to try and ssave face when their party was defeated on the next eletion.
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