Comment Re:...what? (Score 1) 170
The owner is an old crusty guy that lives in NYC - not that there is anything wrong with that, but he's an old school guy and, well, what you see is what you get.
The owner is an old crusty guy that lives in NYC - not that there is anything wrong with that, but he's an old school guy and, well, what you see is what you get.
This post clearly shows that Slashdot is doomed. My Karma be damned for posting this. Someone had to say it, and if it results in a down vote (or whatever it is here) then, well so be it.
I feel sorry for the poor fish in the barrel that gets shot on this one.
Unwittingly, right now, some guy/gal is sitting in their cubical and is on the cusp of getting the phone call that thrusts them into the international spotlight when the tape of the winning team's efforts is played. They might even lose their job for doing nothing more than, well, doing their job, or answering a harmless set of questions.
The relief wells are being drilled so they can pump concrete into the well to plug it. "Relief" doesn't refer to "reducing the well pressure" - it means to relieve the existing well from it's duties.
The two "relief" wells are targeted to terminate an existing well.
preferred customer status is bullshit... everyone should be paying the same price for the same product (at the same time)....
Right, just like when you buy a car?
There is a reason why software companies employ armies of salesmen - their principle job to sell their widget for as much money as they can get for it. A salesman does not transact a product - he sells it just like a stock is traded on an exchange. Supply, demand, emotion all apply for sales transactions. You might find a better price elsewhere. You might find a better "stock" elsewhere. But most likely you've already got your product in mind. That leads me to this comment...
treat it like the equity markets handle things.
Ahh.. that's how software sales works. Supply, Demand, Emotion, and finally, negotiation. I guarantee that if you walk up to an Oracle salesman and demand to have his product, you will pay full price, plus 10%. That is why most large software purchases go through a huge dance of evaluations, bake-offs, and other meaningless activities. For the most part, the technical decisions were made long ago - it's the leverage building for the buyer that is needed for these transactions.
I'd be willing bet big money that Oracle isn't the first. Being a former sales engineer in the enterprise software space, there are some big discounts that can be implemented for certain deals that can make or break a quarter.
Interesting how an Oracle employee is a whistleblower in this case.
's also worth noting that the IRS is prohibited by law from sharing information with other government departments,
Really? That is interesting... because the FBI needed to get ahold of me about an issue with my business, and they contacted my [b]accountant[/b] first.... presumably through my corporate tax returns. Why/how else would they have contacted my accountant?
3) The defendant's attorney doesn't like what their client has done and is in fact helping me out.
When I read this, my only thoughts were... Hook, Line, and Sinker.
Looks like I'm going to need to purchase a 50 pack of diskettes today
You need to find a skilled mergers and acquisition attorney. There are a number of tasks in the selling process, including valuation (what are you really worth) all the way up to the final negotiation - which covers everything from earn-out to pay-out to final disbursements of assets and funds. You need to at least start and find out what your company might be worth.
If your company is worth good money, you need good advisers to facilitate this process. We're back full circle.
Summary: find a good M&A attorney. and be willing to pay good money to get good results. If you aren't willing to do that, you're not ready to sell.
Bullshit.
If I sold something that knowingly was designed to kill solders, than yes. Selling something to the military with degraded quality and attempting to defraud someone?.
Seriously, there are numerous military contractors out there that are "gaming the system" to provide to our troops overseas. We could start with Haliburt.... oh nevermind.
Assholes? Yes! Illegal.. Yes!
Treasonous? Sorry, I don't think so.
That.... was AWESOME. Not awesome, but AWESOME.
So, who is going to review the code in this closed process? The judge?
In all seriousness, how would they manage this process? Would the plaintiff and defendant hire expert programmers to comb through the code looking for evidence? Would it then be presented to the judge and he would decide? Would he even know how to decide?
I can see it now - "Your honor, you can clearly see here where Apple overloaded the xxYY class with functions that are clearly..... " Watching the judge's eyes glass over, you would have to wonder how something like this would actually come to a "successful" conclusion for either side.
Frankly, if data centers are going to proclaim their redundancy, they should test by power failing the entire data center once every two weeks at a minimum. A data center that goes down twice in a month would get ahead of any issue pretty fast. Lessons learned from the staff and the management are very valuable.
The marketing messaging:
"We power fail our data center every two weeks to ensure our backups work..."
Sound scary? Just think about the data center that has never been through this process. at that point, the wet paper bag you tried to market your way out of dried rather quickly and you are now faced with the prospect of slapping around inside of a zip-lock.
It sounds to me like a cry for help directed to the public sector, from the US Government.
Imagine a subscription/license service for a geo-location broadcast platform from space that is unrestricted to users and as accurate as science knows how to make such things "accurate." How much do you think that license would be worth?
Scary? Absolutely.
Possible? More Absolutely!
There is serious money in geo-location today. Not just to target nuclear warhead.. if you call that a business.
"Ninety percent of baseball is half mental." -- Yogi Berra
