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Not true, they are just aren't doing "NoSQL" specifically: http://www.sap.com/press.epx?pressid=13293

I was on Verizon for 5 years and never had any of these problems...then BAM got the iPhone and everything for voice calls went to shit.

Oh god they're using Joomla (sobi2)...the usability of the site is really bad. For example, I searched "291 macdougal street" and it returns all of the listings...

I for one am VERY disappointed in MS on this. The corporate/marketing jargon in their responses is what will lead them to fail.

Honest question: Is this an age thing? After reading some of the "witty" things they tried to say it sounded like my 58 year old dad trying to spew out playful banter to my friends at a bar...it just doesnt work.

"User experience is everything. It always has been, but it's still undervalued and under-invested in. If you don't know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board." - Evan Williams CEO of Twitter

http://evhead.com/2005/11/ten-rules-for-web-startups.asp

Ok it's actually just moved a little bit, but more importantly...

Why really should Twitter care? Do they have any obligation to developers? No. Correct me if I'm wrong but legally what's stopping Twitter from shutting off its API and creating its own client?

Isn't California bankrupt?

I love how people think they can just "calculate the value of their future cashflow"...isn't this what we are preached to stay away from now? (i.e. Steve Blank's idea on "business model > business plan")

As a single hetero male I have never seen a single episode of Sex and the City, but I can speak wonders on what it has done for the single man in NYC (and the world for that matter). Thank you SJP...I say the former (better).

Actually girls in NYC are attracted to success and most women here are very impressed by "I started my own company in NYC". Although this is where your ability to "massage" the truth comes into play.

As a Chicago native and a current Manhattan resident I'll have to respectively disagree. The amount of single women in Manhattan is staggering, noticeable and quite frankly of higher quality. For the record - I still love Midwest women.

Good point. Dropbox does this very well.

If you are not EU, London is just as hard to immigrate to as the US. Especially with the recent changes in immigration policy.

I could be wrong but he also could legally expense this. If so then its a huge win, haha.

And having too many options is what is killing these companies compared to Apple. Quite frankly people don't care that you have XYZ mobo processor or graphics card inside. They just want the dam thing to work.

"Tyranny of Choice" at its best.

Do you have evidence to support this?

Basically 90% of their customers are on Oracle, DB2, and MS SQL. Apparently they tried something with MySQL (http://www.sap.com/press.epx?pressid=2208) but never went anywhere.

and "who you know" didn't matter?

I've always said that 2 smart people can get way more done than an army of consultants in a shorter amount of time. (for the record, I'm an ex-consultant)

But this is business and this is why these companies make as much money as they do. When you are in charge of such a project and your ass is on the line who better to blame than a large Fortune 500 type of company (i.e. Accenture, Deloitte, IBM, etc). You can't get fired for failing a project with a vendor that is considered the "best" but you can for using "Jim's Custom Development Shack".

I read Accenture (coughAccidenture*cough) and IBM and up-voted right away.

Advertising = Jobs

I've had this discussion hundreds of times with talented foreigners (India, German, Polish, and Chinese just to name a few). They all have had the same generic complain "why can't I just live in this country... I'm talented enough".

I fully agree...but unfortunately for these people they are tied to larg-corp H1B visas which restrict their freedom to leave the company and create jobs elsewhere.

Here is the key issue...how do you decided who is talented and who is not? This would become a highly bureaucratic issue.

I'm confused... what's screwed up with our country's policy? Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't Germany have the same policies??? I've lived in Germany for a year of my life on a work visa from a large German corporation. They paid for me to live, work and contribute to the companies success in Germany (and throughout EMEA for the record). How would it be my right to just quit my job at this corporation and go start up another company just because my original corporation gave me the opportunity to live there.

Your contribution is to society is taxes?? Not sure I really follow you there.