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Of course everyone is generalizing here since “enterprise software” is a huge category of software that encompasses many things and many aspects so there’s probably a lot of talking past each other going on. This is a classic case of the more technically oriented Krigsman giving perfectly good reasons for the state of enterprise software and the user oriented Scoble and Carr saying I don’t care why it sucks just fix the damn thing. These are all valid points but it’s kind of like asking why business computers don’t come in rainbow colors like the iMac and why the business suit is so boring. ...
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It sucks because it has to take into account thousands of peoples lives and without it, you would be adding complexity upon complexity to the problem with inopporablity and duplication of efforts. For instance, I can schedule meetings with about 10k worth of employees pretty simply through Outlook/Exchange. Does it do everything I need? No…and I resent the fact that I have to keep a PC stuck in a cage that I can remote into so that I can get to a fully functional account as there is no decent OS X client that can connect. But for 99% of the people here, it is perfect. In a ... Read More
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Every so often, we get some great feedback from our community that's thought-provoking and challenges our assumptions in a good way. And then sometimes, we get blog posts from otherwise-clueful folks who've, well, missed the mark. Fortunately, people with a lot of talent are usually pretty good at taking criticism, and that's certainly true of Khoi Vinh , design director for NYTimes.com and author of the popular Subtraction blog, and Jason Fried , a principal of 37Signals and one of the key voices of their Signal vs. Noise blog. The conversation got started in earnest last week -- Khoi posted " If It Looks ...
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(no pun intended, but it probably is a reasonable pun given Scoble’s predilection to Twitter). This time its about how Enterprise Software is just not sexy. I didn’t mind Scoble’s post too much. In his characteristic way, Robert is not critical, he is quizzical. But after reading through a raft of posts that picked up on this bogus meme, I became more annoyed. All I can say to many of these writers is, “Oh please, do come along and get over it.” For the most part, Enterprise Software is not sexy because most of these folks writing about its lack of sex appeal have no idea what it does. ...
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Jon Whipple’s comprehensive comparison of DrawIt, Acorn, and Pixelmator. This is one of the best “let’s compare and contrast a few apps in the same category” reviews I’ve seen in a long time. Python on Leopard ★ Christopher Lenz: “As I haven’t seen anyone writing much about the state of Python development on Mac OS X Leopard, here’s a quick rundown.” ( Via Simon Willison .) Java 5 on Leopard ★ Adrian Sutton: The rumors of Java 5 being horribly broken beyond all usability on Leopard are, quite frankly, bullshit. It’s faster, has better ...
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There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. -- C. A. R. Hoare (via interaction-design.org) "Design" means different things to different people ... "When the term design is used it can mean many things, depending on who you are and which conversation you are having. Rarely do people stop to compare 'mental maps' and clarify which type of design they are talking about! I believe ...
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J Allard, the Microsoft visionary who lead such projects as Xbox and Zune, is leaving the company after 19 years. As part of a management shake-up in the Entertainment and Devices Division, Allard will stick around for a small advisory role with CEO Steve Ballmer. But Allard says he's off to "explore new territory." And this territory, he asserts, is in neither Cupertino nor Mountain View. Here's the full text of an e-mail Allard sent to all Microsoft employees on Tuesday: From: J Allard Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 8:56 AM Subject: Decide. Change. Reinvent. Decide. My first job out of college 19 years ago was ...
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UX in the Enterprise. ... -from David S. Platt's book, Why Software Sucks. .... David S. Platt, Why Software Sucks…And What You Can Do About It ...
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