Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

On a follow-up to my last post Beth wrote: It's been my experience that clients appreciate honest (yet tactful) discussions with the techies when making their decisions. She is absolutely right. I can remember at least two occasions where customers specifically asked to have me on a project because of my honesty.
The first time was […]

Well that’s it for me now at Collaborate’06. We did our last presentation
yesterday and afterwards, I went along to the IOUG closing debate, on commercial
Unix vs. Linux. As you would have expected, the argument came down to
commoditisation of hardware and software, and the cost benefits accruing from
this, vs. the tried and tested, safe route of […]

It’s been a busy couple of days at Collaborate, hence the lack of updates
since Monday. We’ve been giving presentations over the last couple of days, and
coupled with trying to attend a few of the sessions, there’s been little time
for blogging.
Most of the evenings have been taken up with events and meals. On Monday
night, I met […]

First of all, just to repeat : If you were looking to come along to my
Best Practices for the OLAP Option to Oracle Database 10g talk on Wednesday,
it’s been moved now to Tuesday, 4.45pm in Cheekwood C. It should be in
the agenda changes leaflet in the morning, but if not, now you know.
Anyway, I […]

If you’re at Collaborate’06 and were looking to come along to my Best Practices for the OLAP Option
to Oracle Database 10g talk on Wednesday, it’s been moved now to Tuesday,
4.45pm in Cheekwood C. It should be in the agenda changes leaflet in the
morning, but if not, now you know.
We’d worked out on the previous schedule […]