Portrait of a Lady

Thats a screenshot of Daneese Cooper’s Wikepedia page. Danese was fired without severance by the Intel Capital Series B investors at http://www.reolution-computing.com If this is what you get after a lifetime of working in open Source, maybe I should recommend

people get job with Prof Jim Goodnight, Phd who rarely fires people and has managed to steer his company profitably without an IPO or Series Z funding.

On the other hand I kind of admire ladies trying to work in software companies. They are so few. and look up to people like Daneese to say that yes they can make it big too.

Good bye Daneese. May your big heart rest in piece on your blog  http://danesecooper.blogs.com/.

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Which software do we use in the office?

Ohri’s Theorem on Decision Management regarding which software do we buy-

1) Assuming no budget constraints

If X be degree of appropriateness of software to a particular use-
where 0 is totally bad and  1 is perfect for use.

Then the probability p of the software be selected = P/ Q where P is total number of users who Know how to Use software (like R) and Q is total number of users who dont know how to use the Software (like Macros or R)

As the number of users begins to increase
P/Q converges to Integral of X dx

Cartoon Citation:

http://www.gapingvoid.com

Karmic Koala versus Windows 7

Windows 7 was launched this week. Karmic Koala ( or Linux Ubuntu 9.10) is being launched next week.

No wonder Microsoft refused to recognize the upgrade revenue in it’s books and is applying conservative accounting for

projecting Windows 7 revenue

( given the Windows Vista failure to launch- 1 failure in about 30 years of successful product launches

Ah Karma

http://www.ubuntu.com/

Ubuntu: For Desktops, Servers, Netbooks and in the cloud

Cloud Computing with Ubuntu

An excellent page on how you can do cloud computing without making Bill Gates richer

http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/cloud/videos

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Podcasts and videos are better than white papers isnt it 🙂

Poem: The Extroverted Engineer

The Extroverted Engineer

The residuals of my creativity,

are expressed in left brain poetry.

But when it comes to talking tough,

Numbers, above words,  is what I like to love.

The sheer elegance,

of clear concise code.

Compiled Swiftly,Executed flawlessly,

On a digital yellow brick road.

Numbers do not lie, People do.

I would rather Continue reading “Poem: The Extroverted Engineer”

Hey Professor, I am not a Monkey

Hey Professor, I am not a Monkey

The harder I try, the more life slips by,

And the latest disgrace, is to be called a simian in place.

Hey Professor, I work with computers,

and they dont mind what skin I am.

Curious I may be, but it’s easy enough to see,

I may look like a monkey, but human I am.

monkey

You may go about introducing me to people galore,

as your pet darling who does all your chore,

But I would rather work, outside your cage,

It is not personal,  I am too old to enrage.

Hey Professor, Guess I am not a Monkey.

You need to find some other, to carry your tea.

And the University  is fine , its good ol Tennessee,

Bigotry and prejudice are the not the places to be.

( Inspired by a Real Life Incident

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Lies, True Lies and Statistics

Consider the following data

https://decisionstats.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/interview-david-smith-revolution-computing/

Interview of David Smith May 2009

Ajay- Your blog at REVolution Computing is one of the best technical corporate blogs. In particular the monthly round up of new packages, R events and product launches all written in a lucid style. Are there any plans for a REvolution computing community or network as well instead of just the blog.

David- Yes, definitely. We recently hired Danese Cooper as our Open Source Diva to help us in this area. Danese has a wealth of experience building open-source communities, such as for Java at Sun. We’ll be announcing some new community initiatives this summer.

In the meantime, of course, we’ll continue with the Revolutions blog, which has proven to be a great vehicle for getting the word out about R to a community that hasn’t heard about it before. Thanks for the kind words about the blog, by the way — it’s been a lot of fun to write. It will be a continuing part of our community strategy, and I even plan to expand the roster of authors in the future, too. (If you’re an aspiring R blogger, please get in touch!)

And

Danese Cooper’s blog in October 2009

http://danesecooper.blogs.com/

Start the REvolution without me…

Some of you may have become aware of REvolution Computing, a commercial open source company organized around the R Language, when I joined in March of this year.  For the past few months we have been working on a B-Round of funding.  It was an interesting process and I was happy to be working in my first startup company after so many years in very large corporations.

We built a small team to work on “Community Engineering”, by which we meant developing assets both to benefit the R Language community as well as to entice and inform the “Alpha-Geek” community to learn and use R.  We set up an Advisory Board designed to advise REvolution management about decisions relating to REvo and Open Source, and we helped put REvolution R into the Karmic Koala release of Ubuntu.  It was really fun to work in a small, agile team and I felt like I was getting a great education in startups and we were rapidly moving the company forward…Why didn’t I join a startup years ago?

The funding deal closed on Wednesday last week…

Late the next afternoon I received a call from the new COO notifying me that my services would no longer be required at REvolution., effective immediately and with no severance.  Apparently, the company is moving in a different direction.

I was surprised that the new CEO,  wasn’t personally handling this unpleasant task…but I guess that might have been distasteful after the many assurances he gave me and my team last July at OSCON that we were “absolutely critical to the company’s success” and that he would be “making no changes for at least three months after he assumed control”.  Personal courage in difficult situations is rare.