User talk:Bryant.cutler

The view of hero is subjective. Sure, Lain is the one that receives all the spotlights in the series, so that's why she is the protagonist. However, that doesn't mean she is the "hero" of anything. That's subjective. "Protagonist" would suit better, since it'd be a neutral term. Please think about this and reconsider.--Kaonashi 04:47, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

What I was trying to show is that Lain is not the simple, plain old "good and evil, black and white" kind of series, where everything is easy to see and interpret. Things are a bit more complicated with this anime, so that's why it's hard to generalize it. If you've seen it, you know what I mean. Now, I'm not sure of what concept you're talking about. If that caption is referring to more than it looks like, I didn't notice. To me, "hero" just sounds like someone who accomplished something essentially "great" and "good". Really, like "someone who saved the world", as corny as it might sound.

So, I don't know if that image should be replaced by something else to illustrate the caption better, or if it's the caption that should be replaced. I gotta say I was pretty happy when I saw that image in the cyberpunk article. I not only enjoy the series, but I also think it's a great example of what the cyberpunk segment is coming up with, nowadays.--Kaonashi 17:01, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Blue Martini Software
I understand your concern about my revert, but it is my belief the original content was fair, informative and complete. But I reverted mostly because it was complete. Your version left out PSO (which many BM customers opt for), how BM is implemented, and what it actually does. In other words, it reduced the article to being basically uninformative. If you have issues with market-speak or pov in the article these can be dealt with without deleting useful information, I think. FeloniousMonk 21:27, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
 * PS: The article is about the company, not just the software. FeloniousMonk 21:29, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

I did include the PSO - which is really just rather expensive Blue Martini consultants. The marketing speak is things like "Decision support managed services" - a couple of buzzwords strung together that doesn't mean anything. I think it should be noted that Blue Martini is a heavy-weight system that doesn't actually support "clienteling" or decent business intelligence out of the box - it's more of a platform on which you can build your own systems. Also, I think it's important that it be noted that it's a wrapper around a WebLogic server. Should you modify the article or should I? -Raskol 19:37, 14 September 2005 (UTC)