While there are some nice sparklings, like vendors acting more like psychologists, the overall text shows no knowledge about IT industry, specially "Embracing change means abandoning the false sense of stability IT has offered management as part of its bargain to increase productivity. Productivity is not a function of stability. It’s about the wholesale revision of business processes to meet or generate market needs. Productivity demands that we junk everything comfortable, everything safe, everything stable, set our faces to the wind, and explore the unknown."
Well, I would like my credit card to work every single time I use it, no matter what time or where in the world I am. Also, junking everything comfort and stable might be a interesting experience - how many trainning hours an enterprise would spend for this? While I generally want to change/simplify most of the things at every customer I work, I don't agree with the proposed "total change" scenario. Lucas On Oct 15, 2015 07:50, "Jack J. Woehr" <[email protected]> wrote: > Ed Gould wrote: > >> >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/15/junk_your_it_now_before_it_drags_you_under/ >> >> Legacy systems tie you to unproductive legacy thinking and lead to >> stagnation. >> > He's not talking about mainframes. He doesn't seem to know they exist. Nor > does he know that the demise of Sun Microsystems, > arguably the single most innovative hardware+software company of the > 1980's and 1990's, was in no small part due to their betting the > farm on the proposition that Java J2EE on SPARC was going to replace TPF > on the 390. > > Beyond that, what he says is nonsense in general. It's not true about > technology as a whole. There are pools and eddies and perfectly > lovely backwaters always. > > -- > Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of > www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the > universe > www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - > Carl Sagan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
