On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:18 PM, McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree, in part. I tried to use DisplayWrite/370. <shudder>. But the > main problem, as usual, is management. The mainframe has been around a > long time. We have a lot of policies and procedures. Some of which are > good and necessary. Some of which make no sense (to me). At least around > here, in the past, the Windows environment could change quickly to > demands. Why? Because they were allowed to. There was little change > control. There was almost no review of what was going on. Now that > management here is implementing this, two things have happened: (1) the > "cowboys" has gone on to "greener pastures" where they are allowed to > "get work done, not fill out paper" and (2) change has slowed down to > almost mainframe-likeness. > > John McKown And in some cases even slower.... Last year we created a *new* mainframe application because the distributed platform guys could not commit to the project's delivery dates (which were legislation-driven and could not be changed). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
