One definition of “Enterprisy” Enterprisy: A system that, with the right tools and considerable effort, can be made to do just about anything, but cannot do any one thing well, with any simplicity or with any elegance.
You can even get an simple plugin that makes an otherwise good application, behave slow and “Enterprisey”. Nice.
Pew Research Center, Internet Overtakes Newspapers As News Source:
For the first time in a Pew survey, more people say they rely mostly on the internet for news than cite newspapers (35%). Television continues to be cited most frequently as a main source for national and international news, at 70%.
[via Dan Benjamin]
A great white paper on technical debt [registration required] from the folks at Construx
“Technical Debt” refers to delayed technical work that is incurred when technical short cuts are taken, usually in pursuit of calendar-driven software schedules. Just like financial debt, some technical debts can serve valuable business purposes. Other technical debts are simply counterproductive.
“Most knowledge workers” Seth says in Reacting, Responding & Initiating ”spend their day doing one of three things:
React (badly) to external situations Respond (well) to external inputs Initiate new events or ideas Zig taught me the difference between the first two. When you react to a medication, that’s a bad thing. When you respond to treatment, that’s a plus.”
Cringely writes for PBS, What if Steve Jobs ran one of the Big Three auto companies? ”It wouldn’t be boring, that’s for sure, and I’m fairly certain Steve could do a better job than the Detroit executives currently in charge.”
I found it an enjoyable idea to ponder. Considering Apple’s market share is vastly greater (80B) than the “Big Three” put together (Ford at 7B, Chrysler at 7B?, GM at 3B), one has to wonder what the fuss is all about.
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