Earl Wiener, 55, a University of Miami professor of management science, telling the Airline Pilots Association (in jest) about 21st century aircraft: "The crew will consist of one pilot and a dog. The pilot will nurture and feed the dog. the dog will be there to bite the pilot if he touches anything. -- Fortune, Sept. 26, 1988
HPE rewards neither tenure or competence. Too much tenure and you get laid off; too much competence and you go insane running head-first into walls of idiots while trying to do your job.
Change HPE with Corporate America and you still have a true statement.
What's to stop Apple from creating a new corporation overseas and have them hold the IOS source code there? Apple USA no longer has access to the source code, and the new company tells the US Government to go suck an egg.
Supply and demand baby. It rarely comes around to working stiffs. If CEOs can demand oodles of money since they're such a rare talent (haha), then techies with a desirable skill set can too.
Grab as much as you can, as fast as you can. The company will get rid of you as fast as they can sometime in the future.
As Robert A. Heinlein said "“Look, Ben, a roller skating rink is a church—as long as some sect claims that roller skating is essential to their faith and a part of their worship. You wouldn’t even have to go that far—simply claim that roller skating served a desirable though not essential function parallel to that which religious music serves in most churches. If you can sing to the glory of God, you can skate to the same end. Believe me, this has all been threshed out. There are temples in Malaya which are nothing—to an outsider—but boarding houses for snakes . . . but the same High Court rules them to be ‘churches’ as protects our own sects.”
Just out of curiosity, how does this list differ from similar lists made 10 and 20 years ago?
Are we learning?
RFC1925 #11 - Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works. So no, we're not.
Suggests that management hubris plays a big part in IT Failures.
I think it's a combination of hubris and naiveté. Management and architects look at legacy systems and think all the complexity is unnecessary - that they can implement a "modern" system with the methodology that is in vogue (OOA/OOD, SOA, whatever). Anyone who tries to point out that the complexity is there for a reason is branded a naysayer and ignored. Years later management and architects are still struggling to deal with all the complexities they didn't want to see at the beginning, then the money runs out.
But not before they receive their $$$$$ and moved on to their next opportunity.
Banks, insurance companies would fail, and then goes the rest of the interconnected economy.
I don't think so. Banks and insurance companies mostly run on Java. They began switching away from COBOL decades ago. Few applications are still in COBOL, and even fewer of those are mission critical.
You're so wrong. Google "amount of COBOL used today" you'll see the real story.
"IBM estimates that more than 200 billion lines of COBOL code are still being used across industries such as banking..."
If all COBOL code suddenly stopped working, well, how are your stone knives and bearskin making skills? Banks, insurance companies would fail, and then goes the rest of the interconnected economy.
There still are plenty of US based mainframe system programmers around, but less everyday for sure. As far as "qualified" mainframe systems people in India, well that's up for discussion. What I do know, based on my research is that senior people, where senior might be a little more than being able to spell zOS, they're being paid about 1/10th of what I'm being paid. People who have just had their training wheels taken off, which is most of them, are paid more like 1/15th of a US based person.
When I was attempting to have my account information corrected ( a process that took over six months to accomplish ) they kept on trying to sell me more services, one of which was their 75Mbs service. Sigh.
That's idiotic. Companies most certainly DO NOT exist "to produce profits".
Companies exist to make products or provide services. Profits are a side-effect that act as an incentive for people to form companies to provide products or services. The raison d'etre of a company is to PRODUCE something - the profits from efficient overproduction are just encouragement for those with the means to produce something of value to the rest of us.
That's silly, most investors would be perfectly happy with a company that made absolutely no products and provided no services as long as it was making an adequate return. Yes, as a society the reason we allow such activity is that it's generally beneficial to the rest of us but that's the side effect not the profits.
Can I have the secret for a company that doesn't provide any services, nor make anything to sell and still have a profit?
Since Sony is going to eat the production costs anyway, why not declare the movie to be in the public domain and make it downloadable by anyone at no charge?
That'll piss off the terrorists, but they'll be powerless to stop its distribution.
By moving everything to the cloud you're not eliminating problems, just making them someone elses problem, and enabling new ones to crop up.
He's taking 207 individual problems and making them 1 problem. More importantly, he's taking 207 databases and putting them in 1 place, which significantly reduces the impediments to data sharing.
There are still government offices that have to print something from one system and input it by hand into a second. Whatever we can do to get rid of that type of friction is a good thing.
I'm all for automating management with decision makers powered by random number generators. It'll be more honest and more likely to come up with the right decision.
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Earl Wiener, 55, a University of Miami professor of management science, telling the Airline Pilots Association (in jest) about 21st century aircraft:
"The crew will consist of one pilot and a dog. The pilot will nurture and feed the dog. the dog will be there to bite the pilot if he touches anything.
-- Fortune, Sept. 26, 1988
HPE rewards neither tenure or competence. Too much tenure and you get laid off; too much competence and you go insane running head-first into walls of idiots while trying to do your job.
Change HPE with Corporate America and you still have a true statement.
I have a box of 2500 unpunched, punch cards that I can donate to the government if they run short.
What's to stop Apple from creating a new corporation overseas and have them hold the IOS source code there? Apple USA no longer has access to the source code, and the new company tells the US Government to go suck an egg.
Supply and demand baby. It rarely comes around to working stiffs. If CEOs can demand oodles of money since they're such a rare talent (haha), then techies with a desirable skill set can too.
Grab as much as you can, as fast as you can. The company will get rid of you as fast as they can sometime in the future.
We will never really know that he was not accidentally shot by Dick Cheney
Beat me to it.
As Robert A. Heinlein said "“Look, Ben, a roller skating rink is a church—as long as some sect claims that roller skating is essential to their faith and a part of their worship. You wouldn’t even have to go that far—simply claim that roller skating served a desirable though not essential function parallel to that which religious music serves in most churches. If you can sing to the glory of God, you can skate to the same end. Believe me, this has all been threshed out. There are temples in Malaya which are nothing—to an outsider—but boarding houses for snakes . . . but the same High Court rules them to be ‘churches’ as protects our own sects.”
Just out of curiosity, how does this list differ from similar lists made 10 and 20 years ago?
Are we learning?
RFC1925 #11 - Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works. So no, we're not.
Suggests that management hubris plays a big part in IT Failures.
I think it's a combination of hubris and naiveté. Management and architects look at legacy systems and think all the complexity is unnecessary - that they can implement a "modern" system with the methodology that is in vogue (OOA/OOD, SOA, whatever). Anyone who tries to point out that the complexity is there for a reason is branded a naysayer and ignored. Years later management and architects are still struggling to deal with all the complexities they didn't want to see at the beginning, then the money runs out.
But not before they receive their $$$$$ and moved on to their next opportunity.
Suggests that management hubris plays a big part in IT Failures.
Banks, insurance companies would fail, and then goes the rest of the interconnected economy.
I don't think so. Banks and insurance companies mostly run on Java. They began switching away from COBOL decades ago. Few applications are still in COBOL, and even fewer of those are mission critical.
You're so wrong. Google "amount of COBOL used today" you'll see the real story.
"IBM estimates that more than 200 billion lines of COBOL code are still being used across industries such as banking..."
If all COBOL code suddenly stopped working, well, how are your stone knives and bearskin making skills? Banks, insurance companies would fail, and then goes the rest of the interconnected economy.
There still are plenty of US based mainframe system programmers around, but less everyday for sure. As far as "qualified" mainframe systems people in India, well that's up for discussion. What I do know, based on my research is that senior people, where senior might be a little more than being able to spell zOS, they're being paid about 1/10th of what I'm being paid. People who have just had their training wheels taken off, which is most of them, are paid more like 1/15th of a US based person.
Actually they're outsourcing most of our support to IBM and AT&T, most of the IBM people are in India. They spared me (for now).
58 years old for me and just survived another downsizing, offshoring experience. zOS Systems Programmer, 20 years here, 36 total in the field.
When I was attempting to have my account information corrected ( a process that took over six months to accomplish ) they kept on trying to sell me more services, one of which was their 75Mbs service. Sigh.
That's idiotic. Companies most certainly DO NOT exist "to produce profits".
Companies exist to make products or provide services. Profits are a side-effect that act as an incentive for people to form companies to provide products or services. The raison d'etre of a company is to PRODUCE something - the profits from efficient overproduction are just encouragement for those with the means to produce something of value to the rest of us.
That's silly, most investors would be perfectly happy with a company that made absolutely no products and provided no services as long as it was making an adequate return. Yes, as a society the reason we allow such activity is that it's generally beneficial to the rest of us but that's the side effect not the profits.
Can I have the secret for a company that doesn't provide any services, nor make anything to sell and still have a profit?
Since Sony is going to eat the production costs anyway, why not declare the movie to be in the public domain and make it downloadable by anyone at no charge?
That'll piss off the terrorists, but they'll be powerless to stop its distribution.
With no anal lube either.
By moving everything to the cloud you're not eliminating problems, just making them someone elses problem, and enabling new ones to crop up.
He's taking 207 individual problems and making them 1 problem.
More importantly, he's taking 207 databases and putting them in 1 place, which significantly reduces the impediments to data sharing.
There are still government offices that have to print something from one system and input it by hand into a second.
Whatever we can do to get rid of that type of friction is a good thing.
Who says they're problems? Him?
Never ask the barber if you need a haircut.
By moving everything to the cloud you're not eliminating problems, just making them someone elses problem, and enabling new ones to crop up.
Be careful of what you ask for, you might just get it.
> It will be interesting to see if this causes any software compatibility issues with legacy applications.
The odds are in favor that many legacy applications won't work.
IBM also produces its zSeries chips, which still happens to run a large proportion of the worlds business.
I'm all for automating management with decision makers powered by random number generators. It'll be more honest and more likely to come up with the right decision.
Anal lube will be available at an initial small additional monthly charge, for the first two years, then the price will rise to market rates.