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I hate to be That Guy but how on earth is this not discovered during due diligence before “insane asylum” Company was acquired?
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/01/business/hps-autonomy-blu...
That was a cool nightmare scenario story, but holy mother of mercy was it ever tedious to read! I can tolerate some bad grammar, but somehow the combination of incorrect articles, words auto-spellchecked to something completely different, run-on sentences, and lack of punctuation, made it a real chore to read through without getting lost...
I couldn't make it past the first block of text. I wonder if people who write like that realize how it makes them look? I'd never hire them.
I don't use Dropbox so I am wondering, is this fundamentally different from storing everything in S3? Is it like a single S3 bucket? Or multiple buckets on the same account?
I actually have had the reverse experience. My company was acquired 18 months ago. We were the smaller company, about 1/4 the size, and as the founder/CTO, I expected the acquiring company to be all over us. I mean, we had a pretty tight operation but there was only so much 16 people could achieve. There were plenty of things we could improve, and I was looking forward to the resources and experience of this bigger c…
I know this painfully well :(. Can you recommend some good solution? Ideally open source and self hosted, instead of cloud password manager.
And this, kids, is why companies do a technical due diligence during mergers. :0
It doesn't matter. The board and CEO will _never_ listen to the CIO and technical team. If they want to do an acquisition, they'll do it. I've seen this at least a dozen times in my 36 year career.
Seems like an acquisition is a lot less hassle and risk. And can be done quickly. Most 'problems' can be made to go away by throwing money and fixers at them.
I actually have had the reverse experience. My company was acquired 18 months ago. We were the smaller company, about 1/4 the size, and as the founder/CTO, I expected the acquiring company to be all over us. I mean, we had a pretty tight operation but there was only so much 16 people could achieve. There were plenty of things we could improve, and I was looking forward to the resources and experience of this bigger c…
> Service passwords are still stored in clear text in the corporate wiki. I know this painfully well :(. Can you recommend some good solution? Ideally open source and self hosted, instead of cloud password manager.
Can't run an application? Can't afford a license? Use the network share. No network share? Use dropbox.
I actually have had the reverse experience. My company was acquired 18 months ago. We were the smaller company, about 1/4 the size, and as the founder/CTO, I expected the acquiring company to be all over us. I mean, we had a pretty tight operation but there was only so much 16 people could achieve. There were plenty of things we could improve, and I was looking forward to the resources and experience of this bigger c…
> Service passwords are still stored in clear text in the corporate wiki. I know this painfully well :(. Can you recommend some good solution? Ideally open source and self hosted, instead of cloud password manager.
That was a cool nightmare scenario story, but holy mother of mercy was it ever tedious to read! I can tolerate some bad grammar, but somehow the combination of incorrect articles, words auto-spellchecked to something completely different, run-on sentences, and lack of punctuation, made it a real chore to read through without getting lost...