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More PATROL Express News:">More PATROL Express News:

Monday, July 28th, 2003

BMC’s strategy is defined by the Business Service Management (BSM) moniker, a mechanism for connecting business decisions and infrastructure. At the tactical level, BMC on Monday released Patrol Express, a “lightweight” addition to its management offerings.

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Vice City Ad of the Day

Monday, July 28th, 2003

What makes a real American? A cowboy hat? Enjoying a fine T-bone
steak? Going to a baseball game? Shooting a gun? Maybe it�s the freedom to go
into a poor country and tell them how to do things?! Heh! Those are all great
qualities! But one thing that makes a true patriot is the ability to choose
an American […]

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Dillard’s Supply Chain Case Study:

Sunday, July 27th, 2003

Similarly, the system was good for setting broad parameters for product groupings such as cosmetics, perfume and shoes, but it was extremely labor-intensive to set replenishment parameters for an individual product. In the high-end retail business, where purchases often are emotional, that’s a definite disadvantage. Unlike selling boxes of Tide detergent, selling high-profit items like […]

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Licensing Model for Oursourcing:">Licensing Model for Oursourcing:

Sunday, July 27th, 2003

With software development, some experts have estimated that development represents only 30 percent of the lifetime cost of an application. If you build an application and the cost of development is $1,000,000, plan on adding another $2,000,000 or more on top of that over the lifetime of the application.

That is, once you’re done coding up […]

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Friday, July 25th, 2003

I once had a dream where I had an approved checkin I was trying to make to the NT source control server, and I kept running around to different offices trying to do it, but at each office there was some reason why I couldn’t do it — one machine was broken, another was being […]

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