Thomas Otter

I’ve tried this metaphor on several client calls recently, so let me inflict it on you too.
Cactus

via Flickr, the cc licence of Rodolfo Cartas thanks.
In this architecture, everything is from one vendor, and integration with third party applications is rather difficult. Typical ERP /HRMS pitch of the mid-nineties. Why do you need other [...]

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(photo CC 2.o attribution, thanks to g-hat!)
World leaders are gathering in Pittsburgh to discuss banking reform and other pressing matters. According to the Guardian,  the discussions are likely to be rocky.
European leaders appeared to be on a collision course tonight with Barack Obama and Gordon Brown after Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, warned that [...]

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Lego is used a lot as a metaphor in the software industry, and I’m not sure that it is a particularly good metaphor. I my distant past I blogged about this here.
I came across the story of James May’s Lego house this evening. James May is one of the fellows on Top Gear, and he [...]

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In my Twitter viewer, Tweetdeck, I have a search on Gartner. I glance at it once a day or so  to see if there is stuff going on I should be aware of. I saw this earlier today.

This then takes you to the LinkedIn page of a Gartner recruiter, Peter Fay.

To those that say this [...]

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Photo via the cc of sgt. PepperedJane. thanks!
To score well at Scrabble, you need to look at the score, not the just word. Long words across the board might look good, but unless they land on double or triples, you simply waste letters and open up the board for the others to score. Literary [...]

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