Today’s IT misconception specifically concerns one company. “Apple is already dead,” said Nathan Myhrvold, former Microsoft CTO, in 1997. It is quite obvious that he is wrong – Apple is now the most valuable company in the world in terms…
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“The Internet will not become a mass medium,” said Matthias Horx in 2001. Only a few years later, he caused a stir with another statement: “No one will be talking about Facebook in five to six years”. This quote dates…
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Who do you think made the statement, “There is no reason why everyone should have a computer at home.” hit home? It was made in 1977 by Ken Olsen of Digital Equipment Corp. The company is considered one of the…
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“Still, a computer like the ENIAC has 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons. But the computers of the future will have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and may weigh only 1.5 tons.” Popular Mechanics made this tantalizing prophecy in March…
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Well, with this statement about computers, someone really made a mistake in 1943. It was made by Thomas Watson, IBM’s chairman at the time, in person (but only orally). Thomas Watson was chairman of IBM until his death in 1956….
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The selection of IT misconceptions is huge and will certainly continue to grow in the coming years. However, we can draw much more than just amusement from the various examples. After all, the people we will be quoting in upcoming…
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Our colleagues Daniel Schwering and Daniel Hooker have been busy 3D modeling Fipsi and created a great model of our mascot in the 3D printer they built themselves in Vienna. Together they created an approximately 5 cm tall version of…
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About a week ago, part of the Vienna staff set out on the city hiking trail 2 in the direction of Herrmannskogel in glorious autumn weather and sunshine. The common meeting point and at the same time starting point was…
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Faktor-IPS projects are built in Eclipse; everything is checked in and the build only compiles the generated Java files. But why? Because the build of Faktor-IPS files needs a complete Eclipse, running “headless” and calling complicated Ant-scripts. That sounds complicated….
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