...lesson comes from HP after all: When a company with a weakness buys another company that shares that weakness, it doesn’t create a strength. Attitude of privilege: Privilege, you’ll recall,...

...of the decision’s major stakeholders even the most elegant designs will fail, while an inferior, messy compromise to which the whole organization is committed to will succeed. Bob’s last word:...(9 comments)

...the developer community found employment in companies trying to join the bandwagon; and client/server computing was born. A lot of the thinking behind client/server was a bit fuzzy, though, including...