Webster & Associates LLC » Admin http://bfwa.com We can help. Thu, 27 May 2010 02:24:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Oops. http://bfwa.com/2010/05/26/oops/ http://bfwa.com/2010/05/26/oops/#comments Thu, 27 May 2010 02:24:14 +0000 bfwebster http://bfwa.com/2010/05/26/oops/ Didn’t mean for things to be this quiet this long. I’m going to start posting more “pitfalls” at this point; stay tuned.

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The other day, an IT colleague of mine mentioned a conflict at a corporation where he’s working. The corporation has a mission-critical application deployed across a large number of workstations. The set of corporate employees who use this application largely use it and nothing else all day long at dedicated workstations. The application they are using is a customized third-party application; however, the firm has been having chronic problems with this app (let’s call it “QRSApp”), and so is looking at different solutions. The firm could continue to make changes to QRSApp to fix their problems. The firm could switch to a different third-party application; several other vendors market applications of this type within this firm’s industry. Or, as a senior IT manager now wants to do, the firm could develop a completely custom and private application to replace QRSApp, so that the firm has complete control over it.

The question: which solution is best?

Comments welcome here or there.  ..bruce..

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antidiselephantitis

You may now go on to read other posts. ..bruce..

]]> http://bfwa.com/2008/05/22/ignore-this-post/feed/ 0 The reading level for BFWA.COM http://bfwa.com/2008/03/21/the-reading-level-for-bfwacom/ http://bfwa.com/2008/03/21/the-reading-level-for-bfwacom/#comments Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:53:51 +0000 bfwebster http://bfwa.com/2008/03/21/the-reading-level-for-bfwacom/ This website purports to evaluate the reading level for a given blog or website. My results:

blog readability test

If you’re reading this site regularly, feel proud. :-) ..bruce..

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