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22nd October 2007 - Link Blog

If It Looks Like a Cow, Swims Like a Dolphin and Quacks Like a Duck, It Must Be Enterprise Software. Interesting discussion about why enterprise software tends to completely suck from an end-user point of view.

Posted 22nd October 2007 at 1:51 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 22nd October 2007.

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