Comments on: Gale, Don’t Go Changing

By: Spekkio

Spekkio — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:27:14 +0000

^The real guy, or someone posing as him?

By: Stephen Abram

Stephen Abram — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:49:46 +0000

AL, you’re so funny!
Lord knows I don’t have your kind of power over change.

By: Picard

Picard — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:53:30 +0000

Too bad AL. Mr. Gale’s going to spend all his new energy looking for an Uptown girl. He has to be a Big Shot. But you’ve got a way about you.

By: TradeBoy Solo

TradeBoy Solo — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:36:03 +0000

What about:

“That’s the next stage: product engagement,” Abram said.

“Product engagement”? This is such a new buzzword, it’s even hard to find anything using Google! About all I could find kept mentioning social apps… Did someone say Twitter?

Someone’s been reading to many faddish business management books…

By: northern

northern — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:36:41 +0000

Good news he left a dying company. Bad news Gale is a dinosaur and in trouble.

By: gale weeps

gale weeps — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:52:37 +0000

too expensive with little added value. Bellingham dumped Gale and the world is just fine. We pay through the face to access material we supposedly own. Bunch of vampires brutalizing taxpayers…..

By: me too

me too — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:41:41 +0000

I wonder now if he’ll play a different tune as it relates to Open Source software vs tradititional ils vendors. When he was on the SirsiDynix breadline he was very much anti open source ils.

By: Betty

Betty — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:47:14 +0000

Stephen Abrams was one of the big movers trying to get SLA to drop Library from the name and go with ASKPro (Assoc. of Strategic Knowledge Professionals). Wrote a nasty toned e-mail to members questioning the professionalism of anyone who didn’t like the name.

The name went down in flames something like 65% against. So Stephen likes changes, but is kind of tone-deaf to members/end-users.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:42:16 +0000

If my experiences with SirsiDynix are any indication, Gale’s golden days are behind her. You’re right, AL. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. He should have stayed at SirsiDynix and tried to change things there instead.

By: Torino

Torino — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:49:38 +0000

Come on, why criticize when you have no idea what he’s going to do?