The wisdom of duels: Larry vs. Larry There is a certain wisdom to be gleaned from dueling. America’s history is filled with many famous duels, a slow stepping off of paces, usually ten but sometimes more and sometimes less, an eventual turning to face the other’s weapon, and a finale leaving one or the other, [...]

A while back some said that PeopleSoft’s days were numbered, on a steady decline to irrelevance, enterprise software soon to be discarded like those old cars you sometimes see as you drive America’s back roads, in the front yard, prominently displayed like yard art, up on blocks, containing more rust than sheet metal. Now it [...]

Welcome to Certain Wisdom, your new home. I trust your move was transparent, easy, and painless. This new site uses advanced technology, offers more features, and provides overall a much better user experience. I think you will like it. The primary focus of the new Certain Wisdom site will remain the same: emphasizing the importance [...]

Do you feel like when you talk no one is listening? Does it seem like the only time you see your boss is when something goes wrong? When someone, always a person without the power to change anything, asks how you do it, get up each morning, work frantically for hours on end, late nights, [...]

Ah! Some heartening job news just came my way, not necessarily information deserving of a fireworks celebration, not quite an opera moment when the townspeople flock to the square and there is much rejoicing, yet it appears that the job opportunities for PeopleSoft practitioners are now improving, by a lot. Check out this latest report [...]

Oracle recently announced a new name and a new price for the PeopleSoft portal, known to many as the PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal and to others as the PeopleSoft Community Portal. The new name is: PeopleSoft Applications Portal, a description that Oracle hopes will clarify this product’s role, unifier of user experience and content, facilitator of [...]