On 28 Apr 2010 12:18:47 -0700, john_w_gilm...@msn.com (john gilmore) wrote:
>My own experience of these applications has been different. Most do "work", >in the sense that they get some useful processing done; but this is the only >favorable thing that it occurs to me to say about them: > >o In most shops more resources are devoted to routine, trivial maintenance, >accomplished ad hoc, than to either new-system development or significant >system extensions; In my experience, mainframe shops have a much higher percentage of IS staff working on actual application programming than do the newer OO shops. The new paradigm has DBAs, security people, communications experts, and people implementing packages from vendors. Application programming is frowned upon because that makes migrating packages into a nightmare. The company needs to adjust to the software. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
