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Compliance drives identity management growth

I saw this little nugget this morning and I love the way Novell pitches themselves as the dominant player in IDM - identity management. If business is so good, then why do they need the regulator to help them drive sales?

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Disruptive ways of marketing enterprise software.

My buddy Issac Botbol from IB Communications specializes in workplace training for Hispanics. I usually see Issac at the morning minyan and his insights on Hispanics are almost always applicable to programmers as well. Amazing, isn't it?

A few years ago, during my stint at Intel Jerusalem, there was a discussion about the place of money in motivating programmers. A study was pulled out during the RnR sessions - showing that money was in second or third place behind the opportunity to work on cutting edge projects and being treated like a mensch by your manager.

I was talking to another friend this morning - who just took a pay cut to leave a big telecom service provider to go work for a manufacturing company - guess what - because of
menschlichkeit .

Read what Issac has to say about the importance of recognition.

Open Source methodology seems to be spreading into many different areas - the latest I saw is for test methodologies. We've been using OSS tools like Snort and Nessus for a long time to do in-vitro testing of live systems and it sort of makes sense to open up the methodology and not just the tools This reminds me of an old joke.

A mechanic was removing a cylinder-head from the motor of a Harley motorcycle when he spotted a well-known cardiologist in his shop. The cardiologist was there waiting for the service manager to come take a look at his bike when the mechanic shouted across the garage,

"Hey Doc, want to take a look at this?"

The cardiologist, a bit surprised, walked over to where the mechanic was working on the motorcycle. The mechanic straightened up, wiped his hands on a rag and said, "So Doc, look at this engine. I open its heart, take the valves out, repair any damage, and then put them back in, and when I finish, it works just like new. So how come I make $39,675 a year, a pretty small salary and you get the really big bucks ($1,695,759) when you and I are doing basically the same work?"

The cardiologist paused, smiled and leaned over, then whispered to the mechanic................................"Try doing it with the engine running."