Posts tagged Decision
Hacker Poll: What Do You Think of Oracle’s Decision to Drop Support for Ruby in NetBeans?
Feb 1st
Last week Oracle announced it will discontinue support for Ruby in NetBeans. RedMonk’s Michael Coté doesn’t think it’s a big deal. “NetBeans was a nice tool, but it wasn’t the lynch-pin of success for that community,” he writes. “There’s a wide array of free and commercial tools out there that developers love using.”
Coté thinks that Oracle’s withdrawal of support is motivated by a lack of revenue from supporting Ruby. “Arguably, growing the ruby community helps Oracle grow the sales pie for MySQL (which they also now own), but I’m not sure that’d be big enough or a direct enough correlation for the money-minded Oracle decision makers,” he writes.
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However, as analysts are urging enterprises to look elsewhere for a programming language, it’s not hard to see Oracle’s move as signaling something deeper about Oracle’s relationship to the developer community in general and to the open source community in particular. What do you think?
Also, are you a Ruby developer using NetBeans? If so, what IDE are you going to move to?
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IT Poll: How Much Do You Consider a Vendor’s Road Map When Making a Purchasing Decision?
Jan 17th
Last week as part of the HP ISS Tech Day I had a chance to talk to Bill Haggard, director of enterprise infrastructure for the Dallas Cowboys Football Club about why the Cowboys chose HP to power its data centers. It may not seem like a professional football team would need a data center, but consider this: in addition to powering all of the 665 point-of-sales (POS) terminals for concession stands and the 82 POS terminals for retail merchandise shops within the Dallas Cowboys Stadium, the Cowboys’ data center must support all the merchandise shops across the country. The company owns several other subsidiary businesses as well, and the data center at the Cowboys Stadium is the primary location for all the businesses’ IT infrastructure.
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Haggard says the Cowboys chose HP because the company shared its hardware roadmap and had a consistent plan for the next 10 years. Haggard and his team wanted to makes sure it wouldn’t have to rip and replace its multi-million dollar infrastructure investments a few years down the road if its vendor made some sudden changes.
I thought this was interesting, as the rate of change is accelerating and technologies evolve quickly it seems like it’s increasingly difficult to make that sort of long-term plan. Certainly, it’s a good idea – but who knows what the market for solid-state hard drives will look like five years from now? Ten years ago, HP hadn’t even started offering its first private cloud bundle.
How do you plan infrastructure in a rapidly changing technology environment, and how much does a vendor’s roadmap play into your plans?
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PayPal: Decision to Drop Wikileaks Was “Straightforward”
Dec 8th
Over the weekend, PayPal announced that it would no longer handle donations to whistleblower site Wikileaks. In a late night statement, the company said that the site had violated its terms of service and would be immediately shut down.
Now, Osama Bedier, Paypal’s Vice President of Platform, has told the audience at LeWeb 2010 that the controversial decision was straightforward.
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According to PayPal’s original statement, Wikileaks was shut down “due to a violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy, which states that our payment service cannot be used for any activities that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity. We’ve notified the account holder of this action."
Mashable’s Ben Parr reports that Bedier was pressed for an explanation on stage and responded by explaining the process PayPal takes for things like this. “We have an acceptable use policy group to make sure that our customers are protected,” said Bedier.
The acceptable use policy group had to address Julian Assange and WikiLeaks when the U.S. State Department issued a letter on November 27 stating that the activity of the WikiLeaks organization was deemed illegal in the U.S. “It was straightforward,” Bedier said, once the State Department made that declaration.
Ever since PayPal shut down donations to the site, Wikileaks has found itself under increasing pressure from other financial organizations. It has had its Swiss bank account shut down and both Mastercard and Visa have pulled the ability to donate to the site using their products.
It looks like the decision is becoming “straightforward” for many more payment companies than just PayPal, though Wikileaks has found a new avenue for funding – a small startup called Flattr, started by Peter Sunde, the co-founder of the torrent site Pirate Bay. In addition to Flattr, Wikileak’s support page offers a few more options, such as direct bank transfers or by “good old fashion postal mail”.
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SEO Titles: the decision of Solomon – StuckOn
Aug 28th
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SEO Titles: the decision of Solomon
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Aug 5th
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Bing Takes Center Court As “Official Decision Engine” For LeBron James
Jul 8th
Once again taking advantage of top trends in pop culture and social search, Bing.com is hoping to shoot and score a large number of new fans as a presenting sponsor of the widely anticipated press conference, titled “The Decision,” to be aired live on ESPN (tonight) Thursday, July 8, at 9 pm ET, where NBA [...]
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Social Sites Impact On U.S. Consumers Purchasing Decision Growing Steadily [Study]
Jun 8th
The impact of social networks on the purchase behavior of American consumers is growing steadily. Harnessing such platforms is inevitable for search marketing agencies, according to Performics, the search marketing arm of Publicis Groupe.
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