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Yeah, the same thing in European banks. It gets quite obvious when executives in local branches start pushing for shitty products. When I started working profe
by knuthsat 5y ago
Yeah, the same thing in European banks. It gets quite obvious when executives in local branches start pushing for shitty products.
When I started working professionally, I always thought that eventually the best product wins. Then I was struck with this kind of reality, where the product with the biggest people network wins.
Similar thing ended up being true for me. Without a good support network, I won't end up anywhere even if I have above average abilities.
- Blikkentrekker 5y agoI find this to be an interesting thing about reading the Torvads–Tanenbaum debate, that both sides seemed to assume without much consideration that the best instruction set, and product in general, would always win. With instruction sets in particular, there is a very large amount of inertia.
- kjs3 5y agoTo be fair, Tanenbaum is an academic and Torvalds was not that far out of college. It's easy to be idealistic like that when you haven't been jaded by experience in the real world.
- toyg 5y agoThis also works in reverse. If you build an extensive ecosystem of "partners", then decide to cut them off, chances are these people will move on to something else and take customers with them, cutting you back to size. (Oh hai Oracle, I definitely wasn't talking about you, nope, nossir...)
- ahartmetz 5y agoHaha. In contrast to that, SAP is known for being very cooperative with SAP consulting firms - I guess that is part of their success.