Management

Consultant pilot fish is hired to help debug a company's homegrown purchase-order system, which worked fine when it was installed three years ago -- but has been slowing down ever since.

This company's pension distribution system is a heavily customized version of a well-known package. And it works fine for years -- until the COO retires.

In this special IT Blogwatch, we look back at what bloggers were saying about IT news in June. From iPhones to aviation and from H-1B workers to Windows 7, bloggers blogged it and your humble blogwatcher watched it.

By Richi Jennings: your humble blogwatcher, who selects bloggy morsels for your enjoyment every day. Not to mention how we used to play games on phones...

In September 2008, the London Stock Exchange collapsed because its Windows-based electronic trading platform, TradElect completely failed. Now, under new leadership, the Exchange will finally do away with its fatally flawed Windows system.

This company's online telephone directory is rebuilt every night using data that comes from both the Human Resources database and Microsoft Active Directory. Sometimes, though, it drops thousands of employees -- and one pilot fish wants to know why.

This project manager pilot fish and his cohorts report to a guy who has a very specific technique for raising issues.

Steve Jobs is frequently held out as the model of a tech industry CEO, but a Harvard Business Review blogger says that his style of management represents just about everything that a CEO shouldn't do.

Pilot fish walks into his lab to find a building maintenance guy packing up his tools. He tells fish that he's just changed the wall power for the lab's printer from 240 volts to 120 volts -- which is odd, because the printer has been working fine on that outlet for years.

This pilot fish works late into Thursday evening so he can get out of the city early Friday to go on a long weekend camping trip. And he doesn't take his laptop, since the whole point is to leave civilization behind -- right?

IT pilot fish walks into the office one morning and someone immediately grabs him in the hallway. “Go check the printer in shipping,” user tells fish. “Betty is having trouble with it.”

Recession? What recession? Red Hat's latest quarter is bigger than ever.

Today saw not one, but two major Linux releases for classrooms from Sugar Labs and openSUSE.

This company's patch committee has been meeting every month on the day after Patch Tuesday for years. So why do the committee members find themselves suddenly bumped from their meeting room one Wednesday?

This company moves its plant and switches to a new Internet provider. But six months later the company gets a collection bill from the old provider -- for six months of unpaid service.

Vineet Nayar is reported to have called American graduates "unemployable"; the CEO of IT services vendor HCL Technologies was speaking recently in New York. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers debate racism, stereotyping, sweatshops, and H1B visas.

By Richi Jennings, your humble blogwatcher, who has selected these tidbits for your enjoyment. Not to mention the best gaming toilets...