Developers are too often seen as just code beaters who are supposed to do the basic work of preconceived solutions and systems

Coding is a creative profession and developers therefore need freedom. This is the debate proposition given today presented Computable readers.

Developers are too often seen as just code beaters who are supposed to do the basic work of preconceived solutions and systems. But programming is a creative profession . Developers languish so away - or leave - if they just 'filling in the blanks "to do. Employers must therefore give some room for creative expression of their developers.


This is not necessarily tantamount to freedom-joy and spielerei where the employing organization than may have little to. It comes down to the voorschotelen of problems to be solved and which they themselves can explore their creativity and inventiveness on. Or: the frequently abused concept of "challenge people. This explains the appeal of eg open source software and start-ups; over there, developers often lose their creative egg. What do you think?

Metri, consultancy for benchmarking, sourcing and governance in Schiphol-Rijk, is to strengthen the management Schoonheim Martin as its new director. His appointment Metri expects to realize its growth ambitions. Schoonheim, which begins on March 1, comes from Hewlett Packard Enterprise (UHP) away.

The 49-year-old Schoonheim involves more than twenty-five years of management and sales experience in the IT sector. He previously worked at HP, Getronics and VCD Automatisering. In his previous position as Director of Business Development at HP, he was part of the Dutch management team. Schoonheim was responsible for the development and management of national and international (sourcing) Deals and led bidteams leading to large clients.

Schoonheim has previously Metri worked; he sees plenty of opportunities for further growth. "The market is currently subject to major changes," he says. "Customer organizations want tailored solutions in which the public cloud rises sharply." There are, according to him opportunities Metri, because both the sourcing providers as customers want to know where they stand and what choices they have to make.

In addition to benchmarking activities Metri see the last time demand for advice on sourcing issues and governance greatly increase. "By changing customer behavior and successfully breaking new business models, many organizations have plenty of plans to improve their digital services, says Paul Cornelisse, director Metri. "Martin Schoonheim like no other make the combination of how to deal with sourcing successful that leap into the future."

Police have filed a lawsuit against Microsoft. The cops find it unfair that they have to pay nearly three million euros for non-Office licenses. In the trial held in The Hague Thursday February 2, 2017, both parties were not willing to settle the conflict.

That Nu.nl reports that are  recessed into the case . The police want Microsoft nearly three million return for unused Office licenses. According to the agents, there is an administrative error. Microsoft would knowingly have the amount for which unused software cashed. Microsoft have poured money back into an earlier case in 2005. When police regained 765.00 euros after an administrative error.

Since 2002, the police decreases Office packages. The annual overview of the number of licenses used. It would be wrong in the statement of 2008. An employee of the organization that the National Police is covered, filled in the 13 656 employees of the software Microsoft Office using Pro Work At Home. Which version of Office homework was never activated by the agents but it is included on the bill. That amount comes on top of used licenses for the office version of Office.

The lawyer for Microsoft, Reinoud Westerdijk, subscribe to the news: "There is a time made a mistake and that we have compensated out of courtesy once. In addition, we have emphatically said, "Once but never again." About the Office case he says: "There are purchased licenses, and many. After nine months, the customer came back and said, "I made a mistake and want my money back '. If that does not work. "

reseller Insight
The Microsoft representative also states that the police have no right to reimbursement of the millions and that the police should apply legally to reseller Insight which sold the licenses. According to police, the reseller had only an administrative role and there was usually direct contact with the supplier of the purchased software.

Microsoft also claims that the police have a ' master copy ' disposal on disk and can not be controlled or that software is put into use. The police denied that there was ever a disk version of the software supplied by Microsoft or reseller Insight. The police states that the Office package could only be put into operation via the Internet and that has not happened. On Nu.nl is a more complete  account of the facts of the court report .

In October 2014, police have Microsoft formally ordered to repay the money, so far without success. Now both parties have thanks for a settlement, the judge must decide. This is done on March 22, 2017. The new police organization has established a licensing expertise which should prevent these problems in the future.