* Posts by Marclonus

3 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Dec 2010

Google wants to add 'not encrypted' warnings to Gmail

Marclonus

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Insight sales veep Akkerman resigns

Marclonus
Big Brother

Well what do you know...

This outcome is pretty typical for Insight. Olaf was the last of the Software Spectrum era (company acquired by Insight in 2006) who actually knew what business at the Enterprise level looked like (as opposed to a box-shifting-to-small-naive-companies-at-60%-margin attitude), with significant wins in the last 12 months. However, Insight being very much a culture where you are evaluated by your team-mates and not your Managers, and mostly in a call center kind of way with 60 to 80 outbound calls a day regardless of your account size, this creates some rather intense internal politics where everyone has an agenda to please the All Mighty Fenton, resulting in quite a few of the senior positions being occupied by puppets rather than innovators and risk takers. I regularly ask myself the following question about any of the senior positions: "Stupid as you are, how did you get to that position in such a short time, and if you are smart, how long will you last before you get shot?"

NASA sells PC with restricted Space Shuttle data

Marclonus
Happy

Who needs Wikileaks....

Who needs Assange when the US Gov can do a great job on their own....