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Monday, May 17, 2004
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Oracle cuts PeopleSoft offer to $7.7B.
Oracle, which had previously offered $26 a share for PeopleSoft stock,
has dropped its offer by $5 a share to reflect the reduced value of
PeopleSoft shares. [Computerworld News]
Which makes a few more of my handful of worthless shares worth even
less than they were before. And leaves me just quaking in my boots at
the prospect of [shudder] getting laid off by Oracle once the takeover
happens . . . Not!
The trial starts in about three weeks.
7:56:03 PM 
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STC conference post mortem.
Okay, I know I get a big F minus for my near total lack of conference
blog entries last week. I will try and find some time to put down some
thoughts later this week. In the meantime, I encourage you to check out
the session materials page. I'd check... [IDblog]
Beth should at least get points for blogging something at the beginning
of the conference. I've only made oblique references, haven't yet done
a review for myself. I plead "returning to work in mid-production
cycle" as my excuse.
7:44:55 PM
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During a panel discussion on offshoring at STC-Con (I was on the panel), a member of STC's India chapter
spoke up about the challenges he faces providing services to clients
based elsewhere. One of his chief issues was that Indian workers have
trouble taking direction from someone they've never seen, much less met
-- for example, accepting orders given via email when there isn't even
a photo of the client. I suspect this is not an issue specific to
Indian workers:
Telecommuters Causing Mistrust In The Workplace?.
A new study suggests that with the rise in telecommuters, many
employees have never even met some of their closest colleagues. Because
of that, many workers feel that they don't have as close a relationship to those colleagues as they should, and may not trust them as much as those they work with in person. In other words, there are other unintended consequences of telecommuting. . . [Techdirt]
I will readily admit that one of the downsides of telecommuting is the
lack of face-time with coworkers and SMEs. Which is why being close
enough to the home office to drive in once a week or so (as I do) is an
advantage. And also why telecommuting works for those of my cohorts who
originally worked on-site, then moved away: they had already
established relationships with the people they are now communicating
with remotely. Is this why, for instance, AIM lets you provide a
thumbnail self-portrait: so you can see who you're chatting with? Does
Apples iChat + iSight improve the communication experience by promoting
trust?
10:11:35 AM
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Scoble says:
Wired's NextFest left me uncomfortable with the future. [Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger]
I had thought about going to the Wired NextFest in SF this weekend, but
it takes a really compelling reason to get me to brave traffic (and
parking!!!) and crowds in the City. Sounds like I didn't miss anything.
After all, we saw visions of flying cars at the World's Fair in New
York in 1964. And I had the same reaction then as now: nice, but who's
going to pay for it?
Which reminds me, I heard William Gibson's "The future is already here,
it's just not evenly distributed" twice in the last three weeks: once
at CHI2004 (actually at a pre-CHI event), and once at the STC conference.
9:48:16 AM
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