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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]