Ed Featherston
@efeatherston
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Technology Evangelist / Enterprise/Cloud Architect #cloudcomputing #entarch #blockchain #ciochat tweets my own Threads @efeatherston1
Boston, MA
Joined June 2010
The government is in a complete shutdown, the elderly are not receiving their food stamps, the job market is the worst its been in decades, the housing market is in crisis, inflation is through the roof and what does Trump do? -Give $40 billion to Argentina -Buy Kristi Noem 2
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@sarbjeetjohal @efeatherston @dhinchcliffe @_jfeldman @nyike @psalvitti @CraigMilroy @CIOPaige @waynesadin @tcrawford @Pedro_BCN_MX @JoeSabado @JimCanto @colttrickle I place 98.5% of the blame for my issues with EBS on the compamy I was with at the time. The sort of "we have a project plan to combine these 23 ERPs into one EBS" folks...
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@CPetersen_CS @efeatherston @dhinchcliffe @_jfeldman @nyike @psalvitti @CraigMilroy @CIOPaige @waynesadin @tcrawford @Pedro_BCN_MX @JoeSabado @JimCanto @colttrickle Haha! All ERPs are similar mess. Those are constructed same way… their extensibility and customizationality (a technical term 😊) is a blessing and a curse. I happened to work for two ERP companies (PeopleSoft and Oracle) as an employee and partnered heavily with 3rd (SAP) one
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@efeatherston @CPetersen_CS @dhinchcliffe @_jfeldman @nyike @psalvitti @CraigMilroy @CIOPaige @waynesadin @tcrawford @Pedro_BCN_MX @JoeSabado @JimCanto @colttrickle You mean to say ‘the backend pain’, Ed? 😆 #CIOchat
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#CIOChat Great chat today. Next Chat Topic: Major Infrastructure Upgrades Topic thanks to our long-time chat colleague, @efeatherston. Month 6 of our chat movie tie-ins. Hope you enjoy them. And invite your colleagues!
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@efeatherston @dhinchcliffe @_jfeldman @nyike @psalvitti @CraigMilroy @CIOPaige @waynesadin @tcrawford @Pedro_BCN_MX @JoeSabado @sarbjeetjohal @JimCanto @colttrickle I thought I disliked SAP until I spent some time in a heavy Oracle E-Business Suite shop...
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@efeatherston @dhinchcliffe @_jfeldman @nyike @psalvitti @CraigMilroy @CIOPaige @waynesadin @tcrawford @Pedro_BCN_MX @JoeSabado @sarbjeetjohal @JimCanto @colttrickle Always great to see you, Ed! #ciochat
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@efeatherston @_jfeldman @nyike @psalvitti @CraigMilroy @CIOPaige @waynesadin @tcrawford @Pedro_BCN_MX @JoeSabado @CPetersen_CS @sarbjeetjohal @JimCanto @colttrickle You've been missed, Ed. That gives me the topic for next week's chat: "Major infrastructure upgrades". Hope to see you! #CIOChat
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Vote for Brody! All donations go to The Hotel for Homeless Dogs Humane Society (which is where I adopted him from last year). They are a wonderful organization rescuing homeless dogs from around the country and finding them their forever homes https://t.co/eP5vl9WlbM
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Nice college/university you have here, would be a shame if something happened to it
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Everyone working in consulting, or who relies on consulting firms, needs to read the recent article “The Consulting Crash Is Coming” from The Free Press. It’s one of the most lucid explanations I’ve seen about what’s really happening in the world of big consulting right now—it
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Bloated, overpaid, and outpaced by AI—big consulting firms confront a future they can’t outsource.
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This is going to leave a scar. SAN FRANCISCO, July 24 (Reuters) - A U.S. lawmaker on Thursday pressed the U.S. Defense Department for further details on what information the U.S. military shared with Chinese engineers as part of a cloud computing services contract with
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A U.S. lawmaker on Thursday pressed the U.S. Defense Department for further details on what information the U.S. military shared with Chinese engineers as part of a cloud computing services contract...
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Boston Dynamics just stole the show on America’s Got Talent with this insane dance performance by @r0ck3t23
#Robotics #EmergingTech #Innovation #Technology cc: @iainljbrown @bernardmarr @paula_piccard
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Is Google's AI Ambition Outrunning Its Wallet? Increased CapEx and legal settlements are squeezing margins, despite robust AI adoption and cloud growth. https://t.co/MxKTtXghGO
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Increased CapEx and legal settlements…
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Do you believe that Tulsi Gabbard is bringing up clams against President Barack Obama to distract from Trump and the Epstein files. Yes or No?
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They’re trying to make the US unvisitable Travelers to the US must pay a new $250 ‘visa integrity fee’ – NBC New York
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Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new "visa integrity fee" to visit, but questions remain as to how and when it will be implemented. Here's what we know so far.
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States’ rights!
After careful consideration, the City of Glendale has decided to end its agreement with U.S. Homeland Security/ICE to house federal immigration detainees. This local decision reflects our core values: public safety, transparency, and community trust.
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My take on what makes MCP so valuable to enterprises: While Erik is right that the two reflective primitives that he singles out -- tools/call for invocation and tools/list for discovery -- are indeed the elegant heart of MCP, it's much more than that. It's one of the reasons
There is a lot of hyped up excitement about MCP, but I think most people miss the essence of why MCP is a such a BIG thing. As the fundamental theorem of computer science states "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection". That is exactly
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