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Saturday, July 19, 2008

the Zilla ! vs Business User

"The Zilla" has become my new nickname in office (with all credits to Collen for this amazing initiative) after I have started with bugzilla project to manage development activity at Chennai office. And the same guy says that I talk in C++ when he talks to me in English. I was wondering what makes me/us different from others, I think i have spend more time learning business process engineering, on-demand businesses, web design and marketing then with learning PHP or AJAX. So I thought of comparing the software that we use everyday to see if I can find any key differences in the way we work

An assumed list of tools that a business guy will use


  • Windows

  • Outlook

  • CRM

  • Web Meeting

  • MSN Messenger

  • Word

  • Excel

  • Powerpoint

  • Internet Explorer

  • Skype

  • Notepad

  • Microsoft SQL Server


Technologies/Concepts that they work with everyday


  • Saas

  • Strategic Planning

  • EPM

  • Strategy Maps

  • BSC

  • Six Sigma

  • BI

  • EFQM

  • TQM


List of tools that I use everyday


  • grub (the boot loader)

  • ubuntu (my operating system)

  • gnome
    (window manager - I tried KDE, didn’t look well)

  • pidgin (MSN messenger)

  • wine (to run some windows apps)

  • eclipse (the development environment)

  • php
    (one of the main languages that I speak)

  • umbrello (UML)

  • dojo (the JS toolkit)

  • dijit (more into dojo)

  • jquery (the other JS toolkit)

  • apache (the big - boss)

  • evolution (my email client)

  • firefox (obviously)

  • firebug (yes!)

  • subversion (source code management)

  • bugzilla (work management)

  • nautilus (file manager)

  • gedit (more that just notepad... )

  • shell
    (well the all illusive command prompt)

  • sudo (‘I am the god’ mode)

  • nano (notepad when I become god)

  • emacs (1 more)

Technologies/Concepts that I work with everyday

  • JSON

  • XML

  • REST

  • SOAP

  • CRM

  • BI

  • SaaS


From the above comparision (length of the list)we infer that they are obviously doing lesser work then developers (he.. he.. i know i m gonna get kicked when collen sees this). They have fancy names for thier software, the only well known name in the list of my tools is firefox. But I never managed to understand what EFQM means??? 

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