I don't recommend this book if you are a software engineer or manager, or any other kind of insider in the software development. You'll find little useful or interesting information here and lots of annoying demagogy. The only informative places were those that quoted books and articles on the matte...
I'm bailing on it before getting halfway through. It's not a bad book, it's just not holding my attention. The story is interrupted too many times with tangential information and the plot hasn't captured my imagination; maybe it's not supposed to. I guess since I live half the stuff in this book eve...
As CIO at a small college, I had the distinct unpleasure of signing purchase orders for software license renewals and maintenance contracts. In what other business would you buy a product that costs enormous sums of money, is guaranteed to be flawed, will require frequent and costly upgrades, never...