That sounds like Goa a few years ago.. Even till today when my family is at our ancestral home in Goa on vacations and I call them, they sometimes have to go outdoors with their cell phones to get a better reception, simply because there are so few cell towers in that area that by the time you walk into your 24 inch thick old stone walls, your cells are literally powerless..
Makes me wonder why they don't build homes like that in tornado torn places in the US.. those homes there stood through 100s of powerful storms and cyclones.. They would probably need Sandy multiplied by 4 or 5 to bring them down.. I recall when I was a teen, because a tree in our property was giving a reasonable doubt to our neighbor that it may perhaps damage their home should it fall, we got a permit to cut it off. And while cutting it there was a small accident where midway a huge log fell directly on hour home by accident.. the result - a small scratch on the outer wall of our home.. something we didn't even bother to repair until the next time we painted the house. That same log would have probably flattened most homes built out of wood here in the US.. After that log hit vertically on the ground, it left a depression of close to half a foot - which gives an idea of the impact.. Joe -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Ken Pritchard Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 5:43 PM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: huh? financial news for bmc ? 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... This is a fun topic! For our latest product demonstrations, please visit http://www.youtube.com/user/northcraftanalytics Lee Cullom | Northcraft Analytics IT Metrics Specialist | Business Intelligence for ITSM Direct - 678-438-7244 | lee.cul...@northcraftanalytics.com Main - (678) 664-ITSM http://www.northcraftanalytics.com THE CONTENTS OF THIS EMAIL, INCLUDING THE CONTENTS OF ANY ATTACHMENTS HERETO, CONSTITUTES CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION AND IS SUBJECT TO A CONFIDENTIALITY AND NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE RECIPIENT AND NORTHCRAFT ANALYTICS LLC. -----Original Message----- From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ] On Behalf Of Jesse Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 10:29 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: huh? financial news for bmc ? 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