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HelpSystems Has A New Number One Investor

March 12, 2018 Alex Woodie

A controlling stake in HelpSystems is set to be sold to HGGC, a Silicon Valley private equity firm with $4.3 billion in assets. The deal, which is scheduled to be completed by the end of the month, was presented as a recapitalization of HelpSystems and a ratification of its on-going strategy to grow the business through acquisitions and organic growth.

The deal will keep current owners of HelpSystems – including H.I.G. Capital, Split Rock Partners, the software company’s management team, and employees of HelpSystems – on board as owners under the company’s new shareholder structure. HGGC‘s piece …
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The Performance Impact Of Spectre And Meltdown

March 12, 2018 Timothy Prickett Morgan

We have been waiting to see what impact on performance the Spectre and Meltdown speculative execution patches, which plug some security vulnerability holes that search engine giant Google discovered last summer and made public in early January, would have on Power Systems iron running the IBM i operating system.

Now that Big Blue has published the first edition of the Power Systems Performance Report that includes the new “ZZ” Power 9-based systems, we not only get a sense of the relative performance of the “Nimbus” Power9 chip for entry servers. We also can figure out the performance impact of the …
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Guru: Use SQL To Find Duplicate Source Code

March 12, 2018 Ted Holt

According to Brian Tracy, “good habits are hard to develop but easy to live with; bad habits are easy to develop but hard to live with. The habits you have and the habits that have you will determine almost everything you achieve or fail to achieve.” This is as true in programming as in anything else we may do.

Unfortunately, even those of us who strive for good work habits often have to follow the work of people who did not. One bad habit I come across occasionally is known in software engineering as WET solutions. WET stands for “write …
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As I See It: Homo Digitalis

March 12, 2018 Victor Rozek

The African continent, perhaps more than any other, has been blessed with abundant resources and cursed by relentless exploitation. From ivory to slavery, oil to diamonds, foreign powers rushed in to strip the continent of its wealth. Over the last three centuries, arguably not a single African nation escaped some form of colonialism.

The first wave of exploitation was decidedly European. Germany, England, France, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, and Italy carved up the continent. America was the central buyer in the slave trade, and remained to become the principal seller in the arms trade. Today, the United States maintains a military …
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Proprietary Innovation: An IBM i Ace In The Hole

March 12, 2018 Dan Burger

You may know a business executive who has been thrown off balance by the overwhelmingly positive reports of the superior technical advantages of startups compared to legacy businesses that have invested in modernizing or refactoring their existing systems. Well, consider that startup advantage to be a snowball in Phoenix. Organizations with the best opportunities to be powerful within their market segments are the ones that are smart about leveraging their data and increasing the skills of their employees.

Remember this term: proprietary innovation. Just when you thought proprietary and innovation would never appear in the same sentence, get ready to …
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HelpSystems Has A New Number One Investor

The Performance Impact Of Spectre And Meltdown

Guru: Use SQL To Find Duplicate Source Code

As I See It: Homo Digitalis

Proprietary Innovation: An IBM i Ace In The Hole

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