Thank you Ken for making feel younger. I have put a goal for retirement of 80 years old, which after reading your last post I'm thinking you've reached that goal already!
Susan .... :) On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Ken Pritchard <pri...@ptd.net> wrote: > Folks know that usually the best way to get me is either email or phone > (call, not text). Even my kids ask me why I don't text - I tell them about > the old days where if you wanted to make a phone call you had to walk a > mile > to the corner store where the 'community' phone was. I wonder if we could > survive a day without cell phones, email, etc. > > Heck, it's Friday so I can say this... > > In the old days (once we did get a phone) if it rang, everyone looked at > one > another to decide who would answer it. Truth was it might ring ten times > before someone answered it. Nowadays folks can't be ten feet from their > phone and if they don't answer it by the second ring they think the world > will come to an end. There wasn't any answering machines either - if you > weren't there, you never knew someone was trying to get hold of you - they > had to actually call back. > > And yes - I grew up where there was no plumbing in the house (although we > did have electricity - most of the time). > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza > Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 5:36 PM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Re: huh? financial news for bmc ? > > I created a facebook account just to check out pictures some of my friends > post on there of our get togethers and parties - so I can view them without > having them have to email them which they used to before facebook.. But now > having a iPhone app for it, I don't sign off it, so maybe that's the reason > why I do not get such notifications except when someone specifically writes > something to me.. > > Maybe that's one way to not get email notifications from facebook.. just > don't sign off from it.. I think all of my contacts there know that I'm not > quick to respond to facebook messages except when I'm travelling when there > is nothing better to do in hotels.. > > Cheers > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Ken Pritchard > Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 9:17 AM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Re: huh? financial news for bmc ? > > Maybe one of the last - but not the last! I made the mistake of creating a > facebook acct - never really use it. But now I get all these msgs from > Facebook that I need to log in because someone has posted something - but > when I get up there - I can't find anything. I think it's just a ploy to > have folks log in monthly to pad their stats. Does anyone really look at > the advertisements on those sites? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe Martin D'Souza > Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 12:23 AM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Re: huh? financial news for bmc ? > > I think I am one of the last persons to have created a YouTube account! > That > I did only because a video I wanted to send to some of my friends of me > struggling to drill some ice while ice fishing at the Matanuska Lake at > Alaska, looked too funny not to share considering a local tour guide > drilled > like it was nothing! Me and one of my project manager were literally > struggling to drill.. > > And this was only 2 months ago... It didn't even occur to me I could use > YouTube to publish that video, and I was thinking other old school stuff > like creating an FTP folder on my company FTP server... > > Joe > > -----Original Message----- > From: Howard Richter > Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2013 6:17 PM Newsgroups: > public.remedy.arsystem.general > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Re: huh? financial news for bmc ? > > Joe, > > Let me know when you post a YouTube of you on the Ukulele. > > hbr > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Joe D'Souza > Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 11:32 PM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Re: huh? financial news for bmc ? > > I'm not even that close to retirement but for me I would like to not spend > a > lot of time trying to learn something new that would sustain my living, > rather spend that time doing things I enjoy - lately its been photography > once again - I used to be into it a long time ago until DSLR's killed the > fun.. > > Another toy I have been increasingly become interested in is a Ukulele. > > I can't imagine having to go through a significant amount of time not > having > time for things like that just because you need to learn something new to > do > for a living.. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) > [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of pritch > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 10:23 AM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Re: huh? financial news for bmc ? > > When you get to within 5 years or so of retiring, you certainly want to! > We > 'old dogs' that are up there and close to leaving the work force are not > real interested in learning new tricks. If we need to in order to be > 'rewarded' we will, but the rewards are increasingly less interesting. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sylvain YVON" <sylvain.y...@gmail.com> > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 3:33:53 AM > Subject: Re: huh? financial news for bmc ? > > ** > I don't know, a developer and even a consultant should try and learn new > stuff every day. Maybe at 50 the flame is gone, but we can't rely on a > single vendor for our careers on the long term, can we ? > > > > > On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Joe D'Souza < jdso...@shyle.net > wrote: > > > Unless off course the plan is to cash the cow while it still alive and well > with a who cares what happens to it after you get your money kind of an > attitude.. > > I, just like you, am hoping to not have to learn new tricks either for at > least as long as another decade. > > Unless that trick happens to be around the Remedy Developer Studio as that > might give Jason, Rod and I, some more material to present at the RUG :) > > Joe > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: > arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ] On Behalf Of Howard Richter > Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:02 PM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Re: huh? financial news for bmc ? > > Dan, > > What all of my business classes and reading of the Wall Street Journal have > taught me is that you need to have the plans in place before you make an > offer on a company. > > So I am sure that they had the plans drawn out of what they will be doing > with Remedy and the other pieces of BMC, before they made the first offer. > > And if Oracle was part of it, they reached out to them as well (either > directly or indirectly). > > I just want Remedy to be around for another 10 or so years, then I can > retire and not need to learn something new. Its true what they say you can > teach an old dog (or in this case Gator) new tricks. > > Have a great weekend, > > hbr > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: > arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ] On Behalf Of arslist > Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 12:20 PM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Re: huh? financial news for bmc ? > > I'll pretend it is Friday: Oracle World is coincidentally the week before > WWRUG13. They could announce there and then everyone stays for a second > week. > > From what I read, the initial deal should close just around the time we > hold > our conference, so unless they are working the selling parts of BMC in the > meantime, it is going to be 2014 before any of that happens, or does Bane, > I > mean Bain, have a track record of making these decisions quickly and before > the deals close? > > Dan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: > arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ] On Behalf Of Pierson, Shawn > Sent: May 9, 2013 8:42 AM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Re: huh? financial news for bmc ? > > I'm curious, why would Remedy being sold to SAP or Oracle be a negative > thing in your opinion? I think it's big enough that it wouldn't be > swallowed up inside of one of their applications (how long has it taken > Oracle to combine the eBusiness Suite with PeopleSoft despite the products > directly competing?) I can see if support deteriorates, maintenance goes > up, or some other unknown odd factor, but it seems to me like it might be > an > > opportunity for Remedy to be implemented in shops that may not have a good > ITSM solution but already have installs of SAP, Oracle, or whoever > hypothetically buys Remedy. If that's a pessimistic scenario it doesn't > seem too bad to me. > > Thanks, > > Shawn Pierson > Remedy Developer | Energy Transfer > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: > arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ] On Behalf Of Lee Cullom > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 6:07 AM > To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG > Subject: Re: huh? financial news for bmc ? > > Since it's incredibly fun to speculate on this situation, I'll offer up: > > - Bain will look at the profitability of the various pieces/business units > - > > Mainframe, Service Management, etc... > - They'll tear out the ugly pieces and get them in the hands of someone who > can use them (Elliot's involvement indicates that Compuware might be > involved) > - They'll take the profitable pieces and put probably keep them with the > newly private BMC that needs to invest in ESM. > > So, I'm thinking... Patrol and it's ilk will end up with Compuware since it > will give them a larger stack of monitoring tools. > Mainframe/Batch Management - IBM? That would make sense. The new Z's are > coming... sure would help to pick up some nice new batch management > technology to go with that shiny new hardware and make it part of the > Tivoli > > product line. > Service Management - BMC grew the business significantly (per the > financials > > yesterday)... and they need to transition to PaaS (for the Enterprise, > that's Remedy) to grow dramatically. That will require investment and > innovation (this is an optimistic scenario for ARlist)... and an > AppExchange > > like community (this group) to develop new offerings that are needed to > compete with ServiceNow (such as HR Call Center, Facilities Management, > etc...). This will require some heavy ARsystem work as well (go Doug!) to > make it MORE ready for the cloud. > > Remedyforce is the SaaS offering for small mid-size with the inferior PaaS > capabilies of Salesforce.com (proprietary Apex coding) and different price > point. > > The pessimistic scenario is that Remedy gets thrown o SAP or Oracle to > become another app that is part of those gianormous suites (like Oracle > EBS). > > However, this much is certain. There are going to be changes at some point > with new ownership. > > Now, please continue the speculation... 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