Shipping product costs money, generating angst is free

Kris Bliesner — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:26:42 -0400

I was reminded again today why Microsoft as a company frustrates so many of its own customers and why standing up and being accountable for your actions is key. Disclaimer (I used to work for Microsoft). Disclaimer 2 (I'm a current volume license customer of Microsoft) so I'm horribly conflicted.

Pay per volume pricing scams

Kris Bliesner — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:03:57 -0400

A good deal of what we have to pay for to run our company's infrastructure is based on volume. We pay for the volume or capacity of internet bandwidth we have. We pay for the number of physical phone lines we have coming into our building. We pay rates on all the credit card transactions we do based on volume.

Why Open Source will always lose

Kris Bliesner — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:53:34 -0500

I always like to kick off a new blog with a provocative post. I believe Open Source will always lose. To prove my theory I point you to the below diagram of linux distributions from 1991-2007. What percentage of the PC market do you think each distribution could dream to achieve in the products short lifespan?

Minority Report II

Kris Bliesner — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 20:40:21 -0500

Fast Talk Response -

Kris Bliesner — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:45:05 -0500

IMHO Successful implementations of flex hours/time have nothing to do with "management controls" or other such nonsense. I believe it is more about the culture of performance. If you have to engineer rules around flex staffing you have already missed a bigger problem around managing performance.

Flex Staffing is such an industrial era concept. As technology advancements blur the lines between telecommuting and "regular commuting" companies will have to redefine the work week.