You obviously confuse the US government with something competent and capable. Having much direct experience with the quality and caliber of both the typical government employee, and the typical government manager, I can assure you that any evil it commits is truly banal, and the product of unplanned accident more often than planned malice.
I love these sorts of "in-out" lists - they illustrate the latest fashion trends, which any good contrarian uses when trying to figure out what NOT to do.
No technology is ever obsolete until it stops solving problems, and none of the technologies on that list is completely useless (though one COULD make a good argument for Windows 9x since it created many more problems then it ever solved).
The inclusion of a few other things on this list is plain stupid - Client/Server dying? Has anyone actually tried to USE web-based CRM and ERP applications? I have yet to see a real user that actually prefers the user interface of a web-browser popup pick list over that of a fat-client. Isn't Macromedia, et. all busily reinventing the fat client for the Internet? I don't think the paradigm has died - only that some implementations are dated.
The same can be said for VB 6 - VB.Net is about the best thing that ever could have happened to Java - and the huge volume of organizations that are still using older versions of Office are only going to adopt it after considerable kicking and screaming. As long as VB 6 is the quickest way to whip up a quick special-purpose or one-off Windows application, it will be alive and well - until the day that Microsoft makes it stop working in newer versions of Windows.
I agree that tape s*cks, and the relative price of ATA disks is crashing - but tell me it has no use when its simple and easy to do off-site backups with ATA disks. While we've migrated a lot of backups to arrays of disks, my employer had to buy a DVD jukebox to solve the off-site storage problem adequately. We probably would have stuck with tape if the reliability of our drives had been higher - meaning we spend as much on tape drives as we did the DVD jukebox.
Lastly, proprietary networks may well be on the way out - but I bet you if Internet virus and security problems aren't solved soon, you will see some organizations dusting off IPX and Appletalk. It's hard to hack what you can't see!
All in all, this was a lame list written by someone who spent too much time counting article citations and too little actually working in the real world.
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You obviously confuse the US government with something competent and capable. Having much direct experience with the quality and caliber of both the typical government employee, and the typical government manager, I can assure you that any evil it commits is truly banal, and the product of unplanned accident more often than planned malice.
I love these sorts of "in-out" lists - they illustrate the latest fashion trends, which any good contrarian uses when trying to figure out what NOT to do.
No technology is ever obsolete until it stops solving problems, and none of the technologies on that list is completely useless (though one COULD make a good argument for Windows 9x since it created many more problems then it ever solved).
The inclusion of a few other things on this list is plain stupid - Client/Server dying? Has anyone actually tried to USE web-based CRM and ERP applications? I have yet to see a real user that actually prefers the user interface of a web-browser popup pick list over that of a fat-client. Isn't Macromedia, et. all busily reinventing the fat client for the Internet? I don't think the paradigm has died - only that some implementations are dated.
The same can be said for VB 6 - VB.Net is about the best thing that ever could have happened to Java - and the huge volume of organizations that are still using older versions of Office are only going to adopt it after considerable kicking and screaming. As long as VB 6 is the quickest way to whip up a quick special-purpose or one-off Windows application, it will be alive and well - until the day that Microsoft makes it stop working in newer versions of Windows.
I agree that tape s*cks, and the relative price of ATA disks is crashing - but tell me it has no use when its simple and easy to do off-site backups with ATA disks. While we've migrated a lot of backups to arrays of disks, my employer had to buy a DVD jukebox to solve the off-site storage problem adequately. We probably would have stuck with tape if the reliability of our drives had been higher - meaning we spend as much on tape drives as we did the DVD jukebox.
Lastly, proprietary networks may well be on the way out - but I bet you if Internet virus and security problems aren't solved soon, you will see some organizations dusting off IPX and Appletalk. It's hard to hack what you can't see!
All in all, this was a lame list written by someone who spent too much time counting article citations and too little actually working in the real world.