I guess the basic premise of your argument is that the PHB's are
listening to 90-day-wonder windows programmers, and they encouraged said
PHB's that they needed to replace the UV database.
I don't buy it.
Even PHB's don't go spending millions of dollars on SAP just because
their 25 year old windows programmers don't think UV is productive.
In the case of Shane Co. the PHB's decided to spend millions of dollars
-- and no one bothered to do an ROI study? Or it was fabricated by a
bunch of idiots without any concept of reality?
At some point, Shane Co. must have been doing good. They were
expanding. It seems a short time ago I heard they opened a new store
here in Orlando, FL. (Or maybe they weren't doing that good after all
and the expansion was a feeble attempt at opening new markets to
generate revenue.)
During this expansion, one of the PHB's must have said "we AREN'T
getting what we need from IT; let's look into other solutions". Or
maybe they said, "we CAN'T get what we need". (The former speaking to
an unwillingness to address needs; the latter, lacking capability to do so.)
And this brings me back to my original question: what was Shane Co.'s
REAL reason for deciding to migrate away from UV? If Universe is
supposed to be a superior environment for building and deploying
business solutions, why couldn't their existing IT staff deliver? Why?
It's too easy to characterize management decisions like this as
"frivolous" or "political". But it's irresponsible to ignore the true
business reasons behind these decisions, dooming ourselves to repeat
history's mistakes.
rex
JPB-U2UG wrote:
I can't speak for everyone but if it's anything like at our place, it's
due to lack of education. UniVerse is contains all of our business logic
and Microsoft is used for our presentation layer, desktop and web. We
have 3 programmers working on UniVerse with an average age of 55. In our
windows area we have 10 programmers with an average age of 25. Most of
the people coming out of the colleges and universities only know one
platform Microsoft. They are taught nothing...
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