Comments on: I earned my MVP wings today http://www.vladville.com/2008/04/i-earned-my-mvp-wings-today.html Vlad Mazek on IT, Business and Technology Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:09:40 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Mike S http://www.vladville.com/2008/04/i-earned-my-mvp-wings-today.html/comment-page-1#comment-31969 Mike S Thu, 17 Apr 2008 23:31:35 +0000 http://www.vladville.com/2008/04/i-earned-my-mvp-wings-today.html#comment-31969 Microsoft software as a service? Is that their latest... They first need to learn how to provide software as a functional product, enought with this work in progress BS! mike Microsoft software as a service? Is that their latest…

They first need to learn how to provide software as a functional product, enought with this work in progress BS!

mike

]]> By: MIS or IT - Greener Pastures http://www.vladville.com/2008/04/i-earned-my-mvp-wings-today.html/comment-page-1#comment-31935 MIS or IT - Greener Pastures Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:48:59 +0000 http://www.vladville.com/2008/04/i-earned-my-mvp-wings-today.html#comment-31935 [...] http://www.vladville.com/2008/04/i-earned-my-mvp-wings-today.html Vlad touched on it in his usual frank manner, but I too have watched it happening for a while now. A shift is starting back to Information Systems or IS from Information Technology, IT. Somewhere around the late '90s people stopped referring to the computer guys who sat in the basement of the corporation and ran the stuff nobody else knew how to run as IS and started calling them IT. It is far more than a shift in nomenclature, it really captures what happened. Companies and people stopped thinking about information systems and started concentrating on technology, a subtle but important distinction. I fed on it and made lots of money in the process. I do see the shift back from technology for technologies sake back to systems that align processes and data with business goals or objectives. And isn't that what MIS was doing, back in the day? Published Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:48 AM by wattersbill72 [...] [...] http://www.vladville.com/2008/04/i-earned-my-mvp-wings-today.html Vlad touched on it in his usual frank manner, but I too have watched it happening for a while now. A shift is starting back to Information Systems or IS from Information Technology, IT. Somewhere around the late '90s people stopped referring to the computer guys who sat in the basement of the corporation and ran the stuff nobody else knew how to run as IS and started calling them IT. It is far more than a shift in nomenclature, it really captures what happened. Companies and people stopped thinking about information systems and started concentrating on technology, a subtle but important distinction. I fed on it and made lots of money in the process. I do see the shift back from technology for technologies sake back to systems that align processes and data with business goals or objectives. And isn't that what MIS was doing, back in the day? Published Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:48 AM by wattersbill72 [...]

]]> By: Stuart Crawford http://www.vladville.com/2008/04/i-earned-my-mvp-wings-today.html/comment-page-1#comment-31933 Stuart Crawford Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:19:02 +0000 http://www.vladville.com/2008/04/i-earned-my-mvp-wings-today.html#comment-31933 Hi Vlad, greetings from the road to SMB Summit. I am not scared at all by MSFT going into the hosting business or by DELL offering managed services. I am hearing these fears way to much. There is a blue ocean out there for all of us, just need to go find it. If we spend all of our time in swimming in the red ocean we will drown, pretty simple. MSFT hosting will bring your business consulting dollars and revenues - speaking from the IT Pro side. DELL brings us business that they can't handle, why...because we work with them and not against them. Look for your blue ocean somewhere...it has to be there. Stuart Crawford On the road to Dallas http://www.stuartcrawford.com http://www.weareitpros.ca Hi Vlad, greetings from the road to SMB Summit. I am not scared at all by MSFT going into the hosting business or by DELL offering managed services. I am hearing these fears way to much. There is a blue ocean out there for all of us, just need to go find it. If we spend all of our time in swimming in the red ocean we will drown, pretty simple.

MSFT hosting will bring your business consulting dollars and revenues – speaking from the IT Pro side. DELL brings us business that they can’t handle, why…because we work with them and not against them.

Look for your blue ocean somewhere…it has to be there.

Stuart Crawford
On the road to Dallas
http://www.stuartcrawford.com
http://www.weareitpros.ca

]]> By: AllenS http://www.vladville.com/2008/04/i-earned-my-mvp-wings-today.html/comment-page-1#comment-31931 AllenS Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:19:01 +0000 http://www.vladville.com/2008/04/i-earned-my-mvp-wings-today.html#comment-31931 I'm surprised the bitchy one person CPA out of Fresno hasn't offed you by now. If I was you, I wouldn't be worried about msft. I'd be worried about severe blunt head trauma caused by repeated blows of a 2x4 to your skull. I’m surprised the bitchy one person CPA out of Fresno hasn’t offed you by now. If I was you, I wouldn’t be worried about msft. I’d be worried about severe blunt head trauma caused by repeated blows of a 2×4 to your skull.

]]> By: vlad http://www.vladville.com/2008/04/i-earned-my-mvp-wings-today.html/comment-page-1#comment-31930 vlad Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:10:46 +0000 http://www.vladville.com/2008/04/i-earned-my-mvp-wings-today.html#comment-31930 Holy OST avalanche, OK, first, I can't talk about what brought this on an I likely won't be able to talk about what brought this on for years. Second, it was no single person, product, vision or epiphany, i've been writing about this for quite some time and sharing with you what I know - today I just felt compelled to stand up and (all nyquiled up) challenge people to look outside their box for a minute. The Exchange guys have a view on hosting and its quite different from the SMB guys look at hosting and its totally opposite from Microsoft's look at hosting and the ONLY truth to the whole equation is that there is a service to be rendered here, by a service company, and we all service different types of customers - be it internal bitchy accounting department, the bitchy CPA practice or the bitchy one man CPA out of Fresno whose hair is standing up on her neck after this nights twitter session...... The fact is that while nothing is going to change overnight, the fundamental reason why people go into any kind of an (honest) enterprise is to make money and do some good for others in exchange for that money - we all want to do better for our customers, right? Well, is holding them back and cripping them around really fair? Is restriting them, overpricing their infrastructure and building a castle in their back yard fair if there is a disposable $10 substitute more appropriate? I wish I could give you the details, but you can scroll up and down my blog to see the kind of vision and dream that is being sold on the Redmond campus this week, because I've been selling you that dream for years. And for those of you that bought it, on behalf of my family and the OWN family, thank you. -Vlad www.soldyouadream.com P.S. This came out earlier today so I feel compelled to clear it up for anyone that is going to put me into the wrong category - I AM NOT A VISIONARY - I just happen to listen, and when I hear money I go for it. The dictionary term for that is not visionary, its entrepreneur. What are you hearing? Can you make money at at? Yes? Then grab that pimp stick, a jar of Crisco and get ready for some allnighters. Today, as Microsoft was outlining their vision of squashing me like an insighificant little bug that I am I did not think "OMG, I'm fcked", I thougt, "OMG, How am I going to hire a ton of people in 2 weeks?" -Vlad Holy OST avalanche,

OK, first, I can’t talk about what brought this on an I likely won’t be able to talk about what brought this on for years.

Second, it was no single person, product, vision or epiphany, i’ve been writing about this for quite some time and sharing with you what I know – today I just felt compelled to stand up and (all nyquiled up) challenge people to look outside their box for a minute. The Exchange guys have a view on hosting and its quite different from the SMB guys look at hosting and its totally opposite from Microsoft’s look at hosting and the ONLY truth to the whole equation is that there is a service to be rendered here, by a service company, and we all service different types of customers – be it internal bitchy accounting department, the bitchy CPA practice or the bitchy one man CPA out of Fresno whose hair is standing up on her neck after this nights twitter session…… The fact is that while nothing is going to change overnight, the fundamental reason why people go into any kind of an (honest) enterprise is to make money and do some good for others in exchange for that money – we all want to do better for our customers, right? Well, is holding them back and cripping them around really fair? Is restriting them, overpricing their infrastructure and building a castle in their back yard fair if there is a disposable $10 substitute more appropriate?

I wish I could give you the details, but you can scroll up and down my blog to see the kind of vision and dream that is being sold on the Redmond campus this week, because I’ve been selling you that dream for years.

And for those of you that bought it, on behalf of my family and the OWN family, thank you.

-Vlad
http://www.soldyouadream.com

P.S. This came out earlier today so I feel compelled to clear it up for anyone that is going to put me into the wrong category – I AM NOT A VISIONARY – I just happen to listen, and when I hear money I go for it. The dictionary term for that is not visionary, its entrepreneur.

What are you hearing? Can you make money at at? Yes? Then grab that pimp stick, a jar of Crisco and get ready for some allnighters.

Today, as Microsoft was outlining their vision of squashing me like an insighificant little bug that I am I did not think “OMG, I’m fcked”, I thougt, “OMG, How am I going to hire a ton of people in 2 weeks?”

-Vlad

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