Sounds like this is the same thought process that proclaimed that the mainframe was dead.
I loved the statement (my words of the thier toughts) about "bulk purchases" are limiting the company by preventing the user commuinity from taking advantage of newer, more flexible offerings. Yeah, right... Just what a company needs, the user coonunity buying whatever they think and then calling up the help desk to "fix it" when the new thing does not operate/execute/produce as promised. Nah, that'll never happen... On Mon Mar 24 9:15 , Doc Farmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >You're standing in the right place - the author, however, is not. While he >brings up valid points, these are correctable by good project management and >more User ownership of (and responsibility for) their applications and data. > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED]','','','')">[EMAIL >PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of Howard Brazee >Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 09:01 >To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >Subject: Is IT becoming extinct? > >http://blogs.zdnet.com/projectfailures/\?p=666 > >(Not from where I'm standing - but I might not be standing the right >place) > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
