> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples
>
> Forget everything else, it puzzles me -- and concerns me, as a U.S.
> taxpayer -- that the U.S. House of Representatives is running its own,
> private data centers.
>
> Why? (Is that really part of their core competency?) Couldn't they
share
> data centers with, say, the Senate at least? The House and the Senate
meet
> in the same building already, after all, so they share a lot of real
> estate-related costs. Note that I'm not necessarily talking about
> consolidating IT security, control, applications, etc. (You can share
> mainframes and establish separate security zones, for example.) But
why
> does Congress need to duplicate so many common functions, such as data
> center facilities? Is a House rack different than a Senate rack? :-)
Does
> one have 435 metal parts and the other 100? :-) :-)
>From CONgress' viewpoint: "It's public money. It doesn't belong to
anybody, so we *have to* spend it."
My viewpoint: CONgress *is* organized crime.
-jc-
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