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Book Review: The Big Switch
Nick Carr made his name with the provocative Harvard Business Review article “IT Doesn’t Matter” (free version here), its expansion into a less definitively titled book Does IT Matter? and his generally erudite blog. The charge of irrelevance hit the … Continue reading
The Much Misunderstood Larry Ellison
It is not often I rally to Larry Ellison’s defense. In fact, it has never happened, unless you count that incident involving two underage interns, the failed MiG fighter acquisition and ten thousand cubic yards of Jello, but the legal settlement thereof bars further elaboration. Larry recently made … Continue reading