Oracle Magazine, July/August 2018
PEER TO PEER BY BLAIR CAMPBELL Open for Business Three peers champion open systems and the developer communities that build them ORACLE MAGAZINE JULY AUGUST 2018 31 Company URL Data Geekery Job title Founder and CEO Length of time using Oracle products 12 years How did you get started in IT It began when my dad bought a 286 computer for his work I got really curious and played with it to the point of breaking it many many times He then bought me my own brand new 386 which had QBasic on it Later on I got a hold of a Turbo Pascal copy which I used and enjoyed a lot I must have been around 13 or 14 at the time and my career was already decided Whats the most common cause you see when IT projects go wrong I would say one of the most common causes is Conways Law IT is very transformative but only if we let it be Most large corporations do not allow IT to run loose and as such they follow Conways Law by building complicated closed systems whose interfaces are designed along the lines and units of the organization It must feel painful to work on such a system Whats your go to Oracle reference book Truth be told Google and Stack Overflow function more for me as references but I also like Expert Oracle SQL by Tony Hasler Apress 2014 which I read in ebook format Its a great book for learning about the depths of Oracle technologies Lukas Eder St Gallen Switzerland
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