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Some Oracle users irked about support site switch

Complaints abound about My Oracle Support's slow performance and usability

10 Business Lessons I Learned from Playing Dungeons & Dragons

Marten Mickos on effective teams

The former CEO of MySQL weighs on in the principles of building an effective executive team

Does the ‘hacker ethic’ help or harm today’s developers?

Programmers emphasize independence and entrepreneurship over business processes, development methodologies, and best practices -- to their detriment

When trying to get hired, the answer is more math than preference

If you're going to send a letter, send it directly to the hiring manager and not to HR -- but get the conversation started with a call too

Starting a Business as an Open Source Consultant

How should IT deal with “digital natives?” With open arms

More and more, new employees will, in their own way, be just as sophisticated as the IT staff when it comes to computers. Smart CIOs will see this as an opportunity, not a threat

Locked out — and shut out by VMware tech support

One Gripe Line reader discovers that the magic words are no longer "please" and "thank you." They are "may I speak to a manager"

Microsoft’s looming Windows 7 licensing ‘disaster’ for XP shops

IT has to ask a lot of questions to figure out the best way to migrate to Windows 7 -- and deal with the IE6 apps they may have forgotten about

Compuware taking ‘agile’ approach to Changepoint

The 12-month roadmap includes frequent, smaller updates as well as big releases; the first release is the Agile Accelerator development tracking and management tool