Playing word games with your children prepares them for working in the office where they will have to go to meetings, write status reports, and prepare documentation for people who...

COTS still cost money.

Homegrown cost lots of money.

To COTS or NOT, is not the question. The question is can you affort to COT or Not?

Sorry Steve I could not...

One thing about a non-MS company. There are implementations out there that are cheap reliable and fast for little money. However, they require that you do the work...

I also do not agree that "self-service" is synonymous with "self-serving". But knowing people and how they see things, I should say that the term "self-service BI" suggests that it...

First of all if the discussion indicates the value of the question, this is a true winner.

The only thing that threw me for a minute was that the version...

Might I add a different thought. Just because you have the technology to do something does not mean that you should do it. To identify clients just to...

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If your company is not flexible enough to offer rewards to encourage high pay off risk taking then there is no upside for an individual employee - if company...

If a position requires one or more certs, and the years of experience I have does not negate the requirement for those certs, I am not interested in that position...

Carl Grant (6/15/2012) I think that we dismiss the problem at the peril of our humanity. I need to question myself - am I using my power to empower or...

A number of years back we developed an interesting Library system that really did put people out of work. Jobs disappeared and the workflow became easier and better. ...

It depends only on what part of the products you buy. Oracle has been creative recently in their licensing, but Microsoft wants more of the market so they sell...

I have done little in the true Oracle world and have had trouble every time i even think about native Oracle. But I have used one or more database...

Hi Steve,

I like others know that both the older and the younger have much to offer. After over 40 years now of working in IT mostly writing...

The canned answer many give to IT questions is "it depends". I have not liked that answer since it is overused but in this case it really does...

Question was fine. Got it right, and probably for the wrong reason. But after I ran it on my test data server it proved I was correct as...