Thomas Otter

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Fusion and Oracle Open World

October 21st, 2009 · No Comments

(photo mine, use with cc attribution licence) Hotel Fusion, San Francisco.
I’m just back home from a trip to California. I attended Oracle Open World, and had several other meetings in the bay area. 
I saw the Keynote presentation, and on the next day  I spent an hour or so with the leaders of HCM [...]

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Sausage, Conway’s law and your vendors.

May 18th, 2009 · No Comments

From Mel Conway’s website.
In 1967 I submitted a paper called "How Do Committees Invent?" to the Harvard Business Review. HBR rejected it on the grounds that I had not proved my thesis. I then submitted it to Datamation, the major IT magazine at that time, which published it April 1968.  Here is one form [...]

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Tags: software industry