Clarification, non-globalized with localized control, with drivers who both get dispatched and hailed on the street and often pick people up because they know their schedule.

You ask that question as if it were a bad thing....

Really. Did they do a controlled study? How did they factor in the complexity of the problem domain, the experience of their developers, the efficiency of their tools etc.? Or is this just another buzz word compliant"'it worked for me marketing gimmick? Does it scale based on project and team size? What about global projects where the team may be in Europe, N. America, and Asia? How did they control for those factors?

Sorry, it sounds like crap to me.

They are a global taxi service with centralized command and control. A taxi service which does not want to be treated as a taxi service. The only difference is they use a smart phone app as a dispatcher.

They lie about what they are and elicit sympathy for the 'little guy' to rip off the little guy. I will use the independents instead, thank you.

Nice unbiased poll you've got there.

They double rot 13 encrypt it just to be safe....

Antonin is that you?

"How is putting data in a high end professionally managed data center running a high end professional managed infrastructure system a security risk over what most companies are doing with their data"

How do you know any of that is true? How many people review the data center they are migrating to? How many people vette the employees in the cloud center? There is no incentive for the vendor to do any of that, it just reduces profitability. And the IT management can just say, "It is a professional Fortune {500 | 50} company they *must* be good". But trust me, the incompetence I have seen in Fortune 500 companies has been astounding.

No one on this board is likely to marry anything with a pulse anytime soon....

But is there a REAL difference? Is there an agreed upon criteria or is this just whatever someone feels like that day?

If they contain frog DNA for example? Is it vegan? I don't think this question has ever been addressed.

" It just states that a given modification didn't work as intended."

There's the rub. We are introducing combinations, some times cutting across kingdoms, never before seen into the gene pool. People are concern about the law of unintended consequences which can kick in with a vengeance when exotics are introduced into the Environment.

And checking references. And checking calling up "Joe" who worked with you at company X and is now at the same company the candidate is at to see what "Jo" thinks. If you have an area where tech workers are concentrated and people circulate from one employer to the next you can look someone's reputation up. It is also easy to 'blackball' someone if they burn you. I've heard of it, the casual get together at the bar, the exchange of banter, and a brief mention that "Tom" isn't working out so well because he is rather annoying to others around him.

What is the difference between the two? I have yet to hear a good definition of the roles.

Citations? Also You can get private care in Britain and other socialist countries if you wish to carry private insurance or pay out-of-pocket.