{"id":1059,"date":"2008-11-01T06:02:20","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T11:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2008-11-01T06:02:20","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T11:02:20","slug":"interesting-links-for-october-31st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/interesting-links-for-october-31st\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Links for October 31st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Links that I have found interesting for October 31st:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/appdev.cbronline.com\/news\/compuware_20_still_crazy_after_all_these_years_301008\">Compuware 2.0: still crazy after all these years?<\/a> &#8211; According to Compuware&rsquo;s Paul though, refocusing Compuware will keep it in good shape for the next 35 years. &ldquo;We had miscellaneous &lsquo;skunkworks&rsquo; projects going on, marketing programs that were done on a one-off basis &ndash; lots of inefficiencies,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;We needed to create a vision for what the company is doing in fiscal 2009, and that is what Compuware 2.0 is all about.&rdquo;\n<p>Will Paul and CEO Karmanos think about spinning off product lines that are no longer seen as core? &ldquo;We will support our customers,&rdquo; says Paul. &ldquo;To put it obtusely, we are looking at all options. Breaking things apart or spinning them off could be one of those.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Summing up Compuware 2.0, Paul adds: &ldquo;We&rsquo;re creating an environment for optimising IT performance. We are global, cool, innovative. We wanted Compuware 2.0 to highlight the best of where the company has been, with something a little edgy. Right, wrong or indifferent, we want to be noticed. Heck, it got your attention!&rdquo;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links that I have found interesting for October 31st: Compuware 2.0: still crazy after all these years? &#8211; According to Compuware&rsquo;s Paul though, refocusing Compuware will keep it in good shape for the next 35 years. &ldquo;We had miscellaneous &lsquo;skunkworks&rsquo; projects going on, marketing programs that were done on a one-off basis &ndash; lots of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[989,926,600,604,936,601,603,602],"class_list":{"0":"post-1059","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"tag-bsm","8":"tag-business-service-management","9":"tag-delicious","10":"tag-itmanagement","11":"tag-itsm","12":"tag-links","13":"tag-read","14":"tag-review"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmcclure.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}