Managers are important: they are leading the company and guiding and have to provide vision and manage the daily business.
From Hasso Plattner
We have to be able to adapt to new situation. It's another form of the definition of intelligent behavior.
I made my money with software - encoded knowledge without which few products and services can exist today - and so it seemed imperative that this would be the field where I would give something back.
This is where the world is going: direct access from anywhere to any type of data, whether it's a small piece of data or a small answer but a long algorithm to create that answer. The user doesn't care about this.
New applications will have to deal with big data. We have to analyze it on the fly, so we have to have a system that is transactional and analytical at the same time. We cannot have a multi-stage system. This is too slow for modern applications.
Business reporting is not dealing with objects, it is dealing with relationships between objects.
Please, please, please, my dear competition. We can beat each other and fight each other as much as we want and argue, but do not predict how a system really works when you really don't know and don't want to know. Either be better informed, or don't do it.
The Y2K problem is not caused by technical limitations. We simply forgot to think of the problem.
There is this permanent hope in America that there is some new technology around the corner that will change the world.
The software industry has to become better in componentization. That's a clear focus for most of the software companies. How components look, how they are maintained, the ability to maintain them separately.
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