Speaking of rewards these days! - Dilbert on Sunday was classic!
http://dilbert.com/fast/2013-05-19/
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[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of pritch
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 7:23 AM
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When you get to within 5 years or so of retiring, you certainly want to! We
'old dogs' that are up there and close to leaving the work force are not real
interested in learning new tricks. If we need to in order to be 'rewarded' we
will, but the rewards are increasingly less interesting.
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From: Sylvain YVON sylvain.y...@gmail.com
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Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 3:33:53 AM
Subject: Re: huh? financial news for bmc ?
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I don't know, a developer and even a consultant should try and learn new stuff
every day. Maybe at 50 the flame is gone, but we can't rely on a single vendor
for our careers on the long term, can we ?
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Joe D'Souza jdso...@shyle.net wrote:
Unless off course the plan is to cash the cow while it still alive and well
with a who cares what happens to it after you get your money kind of an
attitude..
I, just like you, am hoping to not have to learn new tricks either for at least
as long as another decade.
Unless that trick happens to be around the Remedy Developer Studio as that
might give Jason, Rod and I, some more material to present at the RUG :)
Joe
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arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ] On Behalf Of Howard Richter
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:02 PM
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Subject: Re: huh? financial news for bmc ?
Dan,
What all of my business classes and reading of the Wall Street Journal have
taught me is that you need to have the plans in place before you make an offer
on a company.
So I am sure that they had the plans drawn out of what they will be doing with
Remedy and the other pieces of BMC, before they made the first offer.
And if Oracle was part of it, they reached out to them as well (either directly
or indirectly).
I just want Remedy to be around for another 10 or so years, then I can retire
and not need to learn something new. Its true what they say you can teach an
old dog (or in this case Gator) new tricks.
Have a great weekend,
hbr
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Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 12:20 PM
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Subject: Re: huh? financial news for bmc ?
I'll pretend it is Friday: Oracle World is coincidentally the week before
WWRUG13. They could announce there and then everyone stays for a second week.
From what I read, the initial deal should close just around the time we hold
our conference, so unless they are working the selling parts of BMC in the
meantime, it is going to be 2014 before any of that happens, or does Bane, I
mean Bain, have a track record of making these decisions quickly and before the
deals close?
Dan
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arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn
Sent: May 9, 2013 8:42 AM
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Subject: Re: huh? financial news for bmc ?
I'm curious, why would Remedy being sold to SAP or Oracle be a negative thing
in your opinion? I think it's big enough that it wouldn't be swallowed up
inside of one of their applications (how long has it taken Oracle to combine
the eBusiness Suite with PeopleSoft despite the products directly competing?)
I can see if support deteriorates, maintenance goes up, or some other unknown
odd factor, but it seems to me like it might be an opportunity for Remedy to be
implemented in shops that may not have a good ITSM solution but already have
installs of SAP, Oracle, or whoever hypothetically buys Remedy. If that's a
pessimistic scenario it doesn't seem too bad to me.
Thanks,
Shawn Pierson
Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer
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arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ] On Behalf Of Lee Cullom
Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 6:07 AM
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Subject: Re: huh? financial news for bmc ?
Since it's incredibly fun to speculate on this situation, I'll offer up:
- Bain will look at the profitability of the various pieces/business units -
Mainframe, Service Management, etc...
- They'll tear out the ugly pieces and get them in the hands of someone who can
use them (Elliot's involvement indicates that Compuware might be involved)
- They'll take the profitable pieces and put probably keep them with the newly
private BMC that needs to invest in ESM.
So, I'm thinking... Patrol and it's ilk will end up with Compuware since it
will give them a larger stack of
