It's a reference to the American cartoon "Dilbert" (www.dilbert.com) that is syndicated in papers. It has a nice sarcastic look at office life.
-----Original Message----- From: Eyal Golan [mailto:egola...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 2:58 AM To: users@wicket.apache.org Subject: Re: Help with Wicket Adoption Numbers As my English is not my mother's tongue, even though I do speak it pretty good, what is the meaning of "pointy haired bosses"? I think I can understand it, but hey, I want to know if these are the kinds of bosses I encountered too often.. Eyal Golan egola...@gmail.com Visit: http://jvdrums.sourceforge.net/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/egolan74 P Save a tree. Please don't print this e-mail unless it's really necessary On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Jonathan Locke <jonathan.lo...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > honestly, your response is too thoughtful. these pointy haired bosses are > self-serving. they don't care about training costs or developer pain and > they don't really care if their org runs efficiently. what they care about > is that if there is a failure, their choice didn't cause it. which is why > the old saying goes "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM." same seems to > go for struts. an idiotic technology choice, but you won't get fired for > making the same idiotic choice everyone else is making. > > > Loritsch, Berin C. wrote: > > > > "But why choose an inferior technology just because of its adoption > > numbers?" > > > > The pointy haired bosses that do this believe in their heart of hearts > > that if you choose the same technology everyone else is using that they > > can turn thinking developers for mindless drones. It has more to do > > with avoiding training costs and rational thought, and more to do with > > trying to turn software development into an assembly line process. > > Reality never fits this mold, but it doesn't stop the pointy haired boss > > from trying. In this respect they are eternal optimists. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: leo.erlands...@tyringe.com [mailto:leo.erlands...@tyringe.com] > > Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 4:09 AM > > To: users@wicket.apache.org > > Subject: Re: Help with Wicket Adoption Numbers > > > > Hi, > > > > We also had the same consideration when we chose Wicket. But why choose > > an > > inferior technology just because of it's Adoption Numbers? Also, Wicket > > is > > becoming more and more popular as people see the light :) > > > > Check out Jobs Trends (Relative Growth) here (JSF vs Struts vs Wicket): > > http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=Struts%2C+JSF%2C+Wicket&l=&relative=1 > > > > We have a couple of hundred customers and so far the feedback is great > > both from our Developers and our Software Architects. Customers like > > that > > the GUIs are faster due to the simplicity of Ajax Adoption in Wicket. > > > > I also know that several large privately held companies in Sweden are > > using Wicket, as well as large Government Agencies (e.g. the Swedish > > Immigration Office). > > > > > > Sincerely yours > > Leo Erlandsson > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > > > > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/Help-with-Wicket-Adoption-Numbers-tp27069702p27082 559.html > Sent from the Wicket - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
