Tools and those who enable their misuse
To get a data architect I know worked up, just ask him about how customers end up buying the wrong tools.
How about sales people who push federation tools on those who actually need data warehouses?
“It all sounds extremely sexy,” says my source, who works for a major business intelligence vendor and whom I can’t identify. [...]
Recession reactions: hunkerers and builders
There are the hunkerers and the builders. Those are the two basic reactions to the recession that Jill Dychè observes. She’s a principal down at Baseline Consulting, and she reports seeing more builders.
The hunkerers “are using the economy as an excuse for a fair bit of inertia,” she emails. But the builders are using “the [...]
