Thomas Otter

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What buying a piano taught me about enterprise software

by Thomas Otter  |  May 14, 2010  |  1 Comment

I recently bought a piano for my musical kids. Well, isn’t a piano in the traditional sense. It is a clavinova, to be precise, a Yamaha CLP 340. I’m interested in music, but I’m not much of a musician.  My original plan was just to go online and buy something based on customer ratings and [...]

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Of Safari Parks, Game Reserves and References.

by Thomas Otter  |  December 14, 2009  |  3 Comments

Just 30 minutes north west of Johannesburg there is a Safari Park. You can see giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, many birds, and lots of buck. Lions laze under the trees. You drive your car slowly by, counting off the animals you see. 5 hours north east of Johannesburg there is a Game Reserve. You can see [...]

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More Shakespeare. This time on the software sales pitch.

by Thomas Otter  |  November 21, 2009  |  5 Comments

  No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:Thy pyramids built up with newer mightTo me are nothing novel, nothing strange;They are but dressings of a former sight.Our dates are brief, and therefore we admireWhat thou dost foist upon us that is old;And rather make them born to our desireThan think that we [...]

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Integration is like weather

by Thomas Otter  |  October 31, 2009  |  Comments Off

(photo via cc attribution licence. ms4jah thanks. Most of my working career encouraged me to chant the mantra, “we are integrated.”  I have spent the last year or so thinking about integration in a more objective light. Integration for me has undergone a de-reification process. I was doing a presentation about HR technology recently, and [...]

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Software and the Maginot Line

by Thomas Otter  |  July 27, 2009  |  Comments Off

photo via wikipedia. thanks! This weekend we did some camping, just across the border into France, and very close to part of Maginot Line. Next time I visit that area I’m going to take some time and actually visit a couple of Ouvrages, go inside and see the working railway and the logistics of the [...]

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