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Joke about the business-IT gulf

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The San Francisco Chronicle’s Jon Carroll, whose column is one of the first places I go in the morning, relayed this joke from a reader in his column today.

Realizing he was lost, a balloonist dropped down to ask directions. “Excuse me, but I’m a little off course,” he shouted. “I promised to meet a friend an hour ago. I don’t know where I am.”

A woman yelled back, “You’re in a hot air balloon hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground. You’re at exactly 40 degrees, 22 minutes and 21 seconds north latitude and 70 degrees, 30 minutes and 33 seconds west longitude.”

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That old clunky thing

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A friend of Datadoodle recalls this story: He stood before a room full of IT people who worked on mainframes and asked them, “‘How many of you feel responsibility for the quality of the data?'”

Not one raised a hand. He said to them, “OK, now you’re the CIO and I’m a salesman. And I say, ‘You know how those guys are always telling you that you can’t get your data off that old clunky thing? Well, they just want to keep their jobs. You need to get your data off that old-fashioned thing.'”

One day the mainframe is gone in favor of a $10 million replacement.… Read the rest “That old clunky thing”

The “personal data warehouse” debate sounds so familiar

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Look closely at business intelligence and you see the world. Larissa T. Moss writes today in TDWI Flashpoint about the “the new debate” over enterprise data warehouses vs. personal data warehouses.

One side believes in one-for-all. The other side believes that by taking care of Me first, I can take care of You.

Where have you heard this before? That’s easy: look at the front page of a newspaper. It’s at the core of so many public debates going on now. The environment: should land be protected or should anyone be allowed to run over anything with an SUV? Taxation: should the poor pay less in taxes, or should rich people pay less so they can provide jobs?… Read the rest “The “personal data warehouse” debate sounds so familiar”