All the very best Dough for all your future endeavors/ retirement. BMC Remedy Community will miss the Guru & his knowledge. Happy Thanks Giving !
On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 8:54 AM Doug Blair <dougbla...@gmail.com> wrote: > Doug Mueller, The List, The Universe and all that > > Forty-two, right? Nuff said, huh? > > I suppose that we could have figured out that someday this time would > come. The news of Doug Mueller’s retirement and the subsequent shutdown of > the ARSLIST, might have been predictable and inevitable, and there are both > sad and enjoyable experiences and events connected to each. I’ve known Doug > since 1993 and have been honored to work with him on various Remedy panels, > projects and conferences. > > To a great extent I owe my computing career to Doug (and another guy, also > named Doug, who couldn’t deal with whatever that “Remedy” startup was…). So > do any of us - dozens, hundreds? - who were able to build enterprise-scale > solutions to some really, really complicated problems, using processes > that Doug envisioned. We owe a lot to Doug, and we owe a lot to The List. > > Doug came up with a marvelous engine, hooked into lots of services, > technologies, platforms and other processes. We learned from him how to use > it to make our myriad enterprises better. ARSystem (in all of its various > names) has been a true game changer and in our little corner of the world, > that is *profound*. Tens of thousands of companies and agencies may never > figure out the degree to which they depend on the concepts he has > contributed. > > To be fair, many many other engineers and designers have helped along the > way, but I think Doug deserves credit for the foundation ideas, way back > when before there was dirt. > > Doug (and Dan Bloom too, big time!) also deserves credit for another > fundamental concept that was present at the beginning and continues to this > day: open exchange of the knowledge needed to make the science work. Doug > has been a frequent and consistent contributor to The List, patiently > explaining, passionately defending, always sharing. Doug supported and > advocated for this tech-centric and customer-centric forum, even when it > might not have been to corporate advantage. > > As we leave the ARSLIST and go forward to work with these and other > technologies, that notion free exchange of knowledge and criticisms, > ideally with some honest corporate participation, is one we should try to > adopt and promote wherever we can. Let this NOT be the end of an era. > > I didn’t mean this to be such a Dougfest, because there are are so many of > you still reading this who have become personal friends as well as go-to > people when things got tough. I for one will really miss you all! I was > going to try to start naming some, but Matt Laurenceau name-checked just > about everyone I ever met last week so I figure you can just go ask Matt. > > Doug Mueller, thank you for making the rest of my life possible. I hope we > have not heard the last from you (unless you want it that way) and I wish > you satisfaction from all that you choose to do or not to do, bearing in > mind that forward-looking statements do not imply any sort of commitment > that any feature of your life will be included in a future release. > > The rest of you, please do keep in touch. Communities is a good place to > start looking for addresses > > Long Live The List! > > > > Doug Blair > d...@dougblair.com <— easy, huh? > > > On Nov 27, 2019, at 11:58 PM, David Durling <ddurli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I want to add my well wishes to Doug on his retirement! > > -- > ARSList mailing list > ARSList@arslist.org > https://mailman.rrr.se/cgi/listinfo/arslist > -- S.J.Deshpande
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