Comments on: In defence of Siemens http://adju.st/2007/12/in-defence-of-siemens.html Doug Winter channels Victor Meldrew Sun, 01 Aug 2010 08:04:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Shazbot Blog » Blog Archive » Perl on Rails - Why the BBC Fails at the Internet http://adju.st/2007/12/in-defence-of-siemens.html/comment-page-1#comment-1623 Shazbot Blog » Blog Archive » Perl on Rails - Why the BBC Fails at the Internet Sun, 09 Dec 2007 10:24:46 +0000 http://adju.st/2007/12/in-defence-of-siemens.html#comment-1623 <p>[...] #19 by Willard on the I Am Seb is very pertinent as is this response post by Doug [...]</p> [...] #19 by Willard on the I Am Seb is very pertinent as is this response post by Doug [...]

]]> By: doug http://adju.st/2007/12/in-defence-of-siemens.html/comment-page-1#comment-1621 doug Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:30:18 +0000 http://adju.st/2007/12/in-defence-of-siemens.html#comment-1621 <p>It wouldn't surprise me if Siemens were generally pretty useless - the BBC case is a bit odd, since a lot of the staff running the BBC service are ex-BBC employees who were transferred over in outsourcing. </p> <p>I've not worked with Siemens myself - my only contact with them is they made a mobile phone I once owned that I rather liked ;)</p> It wouldn’t surprise me if Siemens were generally pretty useless - the BBC case is a bit odd, since a lot of the staff running the BBC service are ex-BBC employees who were transferred over in outsourcing.

I’ve not worked with Siemens myself - my only contact with them is they made a mobile phone I once owned that I rather liked ;)

]]> By: John Harrison http://adju.st/2007/12/in-defence-of-siemens.html/comment-page-1#comment-1620 John Harrison Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:14:11 +0000 http://adju.st/2007/12/in-defence-of-siemens.html#comment-1620 <p>Back in my consultant days we ran into customers that had Siemens running some aspect of a project pretty frequently. The system in question was some sort of out-dated propriety Siemens technology that the customer had been convinced they needed to cling to as if life depended on it. We were usually being asked to come in and rescue the project in some way. Generally what would happen is that we'd point out that the reason the project needed rescuing was the reliance on whatever crap system Siemens had sold them and that they should run away from it as quickly as they could. Usually the customer would freak out at this point and run to Siemens with more money.</p> <p>I wish I had the brain washing ability that they have...</p> Back in my consultant days we ran into customers that had Siemens running some aspect of a project pretty frequently. The system in question was some sort of out-dated propriety Siemens technology that the customer had been convinced they needed to cling to as if life depended on it. We were usually being asked to come in and rescue the project in some way. Generally what would happen is that we’d point out that the reason the project needed rescuing was the reliance on whatever crap system Siemens had sold them and that they should run away from it as quickly as they could. Usually the customer would freak out at this point and run to Siemens with more money.

I wish I had the brain washing ability that they have…

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