The Dirty Secrets of Your TradeSo, Television is a hot bed of lies, deceit and made up competitions. We can't say that we are that surprised... every job is full of this stuff. It's not like the newspapers currently kicking TV whilst it is down are all that innocent.
We'd like you to even things out a bit. Spill the beans on your own trade. Tell us the dirty secrets that the public need to know.
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chthonic, Thu 27 Sep 2007, 10:31)
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You're missing the point gibletgravyIt's not a question of whether it's a secret to you, it's whether it might potentially be news to anyone else.
The (boring) fact is that there aren't that many dirty secrets in the IT world, or at least no huge conspiracy. Sometimes people pay through the nose for something that takes little effort, other times there's no profit in it. There's lots of lies and marketing about how good each product is, people follow the products that make the most money rather than the technically efficient solution.
I'd look very carefully indeed at value for money of large enterprise software (such as Oracle or SAP), and even more closely at the consulting services for those and other very large consultancy firms which have - oh shock - been known to bump billable days up further than required.
There's no magic software which fixes all the problems. All software and hardware is broken in different ways. Don't buy cheap crap, but also avoid kit where the manufacturer just sticks a different badge on it.
(We do, however, know you're going to buy the cheap crap anyway, and then moan about it)
(, Fri 28 Sep 2007, 11:19, Reply)
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