{"id":266,"date":"2003-11-19T21:19:27","date_gmt":"2003-11-20T02:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/11\/19\/bill-gates-unplugged\/"},"modified":"2006-12-15T23:16:01","modified_gmt":"2006-12-16T04:16:01","slug":"bill-gates-unplugged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2003\/11\/19\/bill-gates-unplugged\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates Unplugged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a206'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/\">Cnet<\/a> has an <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2008-7345_3-5109369.html?tag=nefd_lede\">interview<\/a> going on with Bill Gates.   As much as I&#8217;m adverse to Microsoft stuff I try my best to read what the head honchos are up to since it&#8217;s smarter to understand what they&#8217;re up to than stick your head in the sand.<\/p>\n<p>I found this quote interesting.  Especially if we pull it out of its context and put it in the context of offshoring and outsourcing:<\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\nThe IT systems are your brain. If you take your brain and outsource it then any adaptability you want (becomes) a contract negotiation.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some food for thought?  Yep.   Even if IT isn&#8217;t what your core competency is but you rely on IT to keep your business running these are words to think about.    Sure outsourcing might save you a bundle now (and in some cases it&#8217;s the only way to survive certain situations) but in the future if you need changes that&#8217;s a renegotiation you&#8217;ll have to go through.   (Most likely with a higher price).<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2008-7345_3-5109369.html?tag=nefd_lede\">Link to interview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cnet has an interview going on with Bill Gates. As much as I&#8217;m adverse to Microsoft stuff I try my best to read what the head honchos are up to since it&#8217;s smarter to understand what they&#8217;re up to than stick your head in the sand. I found this quote interesting. Especially if we pull [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":703,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,1209],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-windoze"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}