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The End Of “Build It Yourself” Software

YoungUpstarts

Companies like Salesforce, Magento, Yammer, Freshdesk, Asana and dozens of others are on the rise because they outmatch in-house software on usefulness and cost of ownership. Levittown made modern suburbia possible with all the safety, convenience and community people have come to expect in such neighborhoods.

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IBM: Where Corporate Responsibility is Not a Trend, but a Lifestyle

Austin Startup

Let’s circle back to Latinitas’ first interaction with IBM, back to our start in 2002. We thank IBM Customer Architect and Master Inventor Janani Janakiraman, Software Engineer Karen Siles (now a Latinitas board member!), and others they brought to help.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

But I’ve seen some recent comments that this post might have upset and offended the SMB community that we serve, and that I cannot abide. In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. same thing goes for the majority of the Java community).NET

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