On 24 Mar 2008 14:03:15 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerhard Adam) wrote: >> What's much harder for both data processing and for users is to figure >> out how to collect and use data that might give us that competitive >> advantage - without spending more than the return. > >Agreed. But that's a question that's independent of technology. That isn't >to say that technology can't assist in this question, but it can't drive it. > >Sometimes IT organizations forget that they didn't invent information, they >simply are a means of managing it.
But talking about replacing IT is basically independent of technology as well. Except that some technological changes make this something that people consider. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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