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Summary: A Fun Read
Review: Fox Tales was a fun book to read and is a story that certainly is worth being told. Kerry's memoir of his days at Fox Software was an interesting trip down memory lane. I, too, worked for Fox Software for many years. However, Kerry's recollection of the atmosphere at Fox Software is not the same as mine. Although I also remember the pressure, the long hours, the relentless modifications, I vividly recall a wonderful camaraderie led by Dave Fulton and the development team and lots and lots of fun being had by all. I hope that the readers of Kerry's account come to understand, despite his complaints of having to redo his work, that the numerous changes to the product and Dave Fulton's insistence on being responsive to the product's user base is what made Fox Software a successful award winning enterprise. There were several factual errors, the most egregious being Kerry's recollection of the inventors of Rushmore Technology. He correctly named Eric but credited the wrong Dave! The patent granted to Microsoft for Rushmore lists the inventors as David L. Fulton and Eric R. Christensen. How unfortunate that Kerry was so unhappy at Fox Software, an experience that ultimately made him very wealthy and able to pursue his writing career with no financial worries.
Rating:
Summary: A Fun Read
Review: Fox Tales was a fun book to read and is a story that certainly is worth being told. Kerry's memoir of his days at Fox Software was an interesting trip down memory lane. I, too, worked for Fox Software for many years. However, Kerry's recollection of the atmosphere at Fox Software is not the same as mine. Although I also remember the pressure, the long hours, the relentless modifications, I vividly recall a wonderful camaraderie led by Dave Fulton and the development team and lots and lots of fun being had by all. I hope that the readers of Kerry's account come to understand, despite his complaints of having to redo his work, that the numerous changes to the product and Dave Fulton's insistence on being responsive to the product's user base is what made Fox Software a successful award winning enterprise. There were several factual errors, the most egregious being Kerry's recollection of the inventors of Rushmore Technology. He correctly named Eric but credited the wrong Dave! The patent granted to Microsoft for Rushmore lists the inventors as David L. Fulton and Eric R. Christensen. How unfortunate that Kerry was so unhappy at Fox Software, an experience that ultimately made him very wealthy and able to pursue his writing career with no financial worries.
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Summary: Right on the Money
Review: FoxTales is an excellent read. Once I got started, I simply could not put it down. As an employee that actually worked in the offices of Fox Software, I always felt that Fox Software was a company that succeeded more in spite of its uppermost management, rather than because of it. At times Fox was an exciting and awesome place to work and at others, it was humiliating and torturous. Kerry does a great job of presenting the experience as a whole and of wrapping up a series of somewhat loosely related events into a very entertaining story. It's nice to see someone tell the outside world what it was like at Fox Software.If nothing else, Dr. Fulton had an excellent eye for talented developers and he certainly did manage to assemble an incredible team. It's great to see how Keary and others were eventually rewarded by Microsoft for their efforts and perseverance.
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Summary: Difficult to put down
Review: I really enjoyed reading this story and found it difficult to put the book down to get back to work. Kerry has a humorous twist on a stress-filled journey of working for a small company in the midwest that put together one of the greatest success stories in the industry. It brought back some enjoyable memories that I had long forgotten. This book gives you some excellent insight to how this software development tool was developed, and how amazing this product is despite the challenges this company and the developers faced. This is an easy read and might even provide you with some ideas to improve how you approach the people side of our business. Thanks for sharing your story Kerry.
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Summary: A Great Tale!
Review: I thought Kerry did an outstanding job of providing an insider's view of software development at a small company as well as the tumoil and chaos in a rapidly developing industry from an unassuming, human point of view that anyone either inside or outside of the computer industry would enjoy. Having been hired by Fox Software about a year before it was bought by Microsoft, I lived through a portion of the events covered by the book and was impressed at how vividly Kerry was able to recreate the emotions of those days. Great job!
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Summary: What I always wanted to know about Fox
Review: Kerry has definitely a gift for writing. He describes in such a vivid way what happened those years that it is impossible to put the book down once you started reading it. You will get to not only to know about his key role in the development of the Fox product through the years but how the software industry worked until 10 years ago when still there where small companies creating kicking-butt software.
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Summary: Buy Foxtales
Review: Once I began this extraordinary book, I could not put it down. It's a page turner with a story that will appeal to all readers. I worked at Fox Software with Kerry for over 4 years. This story of Kerry's experience at Fox Software is a wonderful reminder that how you get to the top is more important than how high you get. There have been many stories of what the inside of the high-tech business looks like from the most famous and successful business leaders. Most of these stories are attempts to write history and promote themselves. This story is about a hard working and honest guy who wants to work hard and make something of himself by joining a small software company. After reading this book you can tell that Kerry wrote this book to just share his experience. He is not trying to promote himself, and by doing so he tells a story that so many people can relate to, and he records for all of us a fascinating story of a small software company at a time when the industry was growing exponentially. This story has a happy ending, despite all of the obstacles presented in the book, Kerry and others continued to work hard and were rewarded years later at Microsoft. I am looking forward to more great books from Kerry.
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Summary: Buy Foxtales
Review: Once I began this extraordinary book, I could not put it down. It's a page turner with a story that will appeal to all readers. I worked at Fox Software with Kerry for over 4 years. This story of Kerry's experience at Fox Software is a wonderful reminder that how you get to the top is more important than how high you get. There have been many stories of what the inside of the high-tech business looks like from the most famous and successful business leaders. Most of these stories are attempts to write history and promote themselves. This story is about a hard working and honest guy who wants to work hard and make something of himself by joining a small software company. After reading this book you can tell that Kerry wrote this book to just share his experience. He is not trying to promote himself, and by doing so he tells a story that so many people can relate to, and he records for all of us a fascinating story of a small software company at a time when the industry was growing exponentially. This story has a happy ending, despite all of the obstacles presented in the book, Kerry and others continued to work hard and were rewarded years later at Microsoft. I am looking forward to more great books from Kerry.
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Summary: Book worth reading
Review: Recently, I read Mr. Nietz's book while on vacation and found it to be very interesting and hard to put down. Within a couple of days I was finished with the book. This book is for all audiences and you don't need a degree in computers to enjoy it. I highly recommend this book and I look forward to reading other books by Kerry in the future.
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Summary: Book worth reading
Review: Recently, I read Mr. Nietz's book while on vacation and found it to be very interesting and hard to put down. Within a couple of days I was finished with the book. This book is for all audiences and you don't need a degree in computers to enjoy it. I highly recommend this book and I look forward to reading other books by Kerry in the future.
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