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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (42504)	10/3/2005 1:48:12 AM
From: Live2Sail	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

OT Earlie was just talking about stocks, the only thing this has to do with RE is that I think the homebuilders stocks are shorts. I know, but since it's the RE crash board, I figured that I should say something that's at least obliquely related to RE. As for software like Oracle/Siebel, I know a fair amount about this business. I know. I don't know nearly as much as you about this area. I'm just relating my experience as an end-user of some Siebel software. I used some bug tracking software of theirs, and it sucked. It was not intuitive to use at all. The user interface was miserable. In meetings when an engineer brought up a problem with something, and he/she was told to enter it into the bug tracker, you'd think that engineer would rather have his fingernails pulled out he screamed so loudly. Did the engineer eventually enter issues into Siebel's bugtracker? Yes. Did Siebel make a name for itself as a maker of high quality software? No. I'm not surprised Siebel got acquired. It was their only way out. L2S