"But it doesn't excuse writing garbage"

It's been said before, but without more details, I can't say I agree this design is garbage. I might not have come up with...

"Everybody feels that they can just slime into the position without real education and working experience."

That's because when management doesn't really understand what the job entails, and they just know...

To be honest, I've seen worse, and actually the system isn't as bad as it first appears.

I don't know if you have ever dealt with date issues, globalization, time offsets,...

ESX is their highest end server. It's a very thin OS, and as such, not really prone to much patching.

For most systems, a well-written application can be made to run entirely in a virtual environment. Not everyone needs ten kabillion transactions per second on 30 googlebyte storage systems....

Hey Paul, time must really fly for you. I think perhaps you are at least 10 years early in your estimation of when this took place.

NT anything wasn't even...

Steve, you seem to be describing a mainframe.

Also, one of the biggest advantages to virtualizing your environment is the fact that you usually end up with greater control to reproduce...

"I don't how the new quad core, which are dual dual cores (if that makes sense), will run on an OS that's supporting a single CPU. Or maybe that's the...

Hi Steve,

In the past, when I worked on a CRM system, we actually didn't really need to do anything special to get detailed realtime reporting, besides good design, and using...