>I do believe Remedy is marketing this as a full-blown product suite that, if configured correctly, shouldn't need or require the services of anything other than a 'maintenance admin'. This is why, no doubt, they always offer their professional services if you want to step outside their new box. And, I don't believe they are going to want to assist those developers who insist on continuing to treat Remedy as a development tool....sigh......
I just wonder if the handwriting is on the wall for us custom Remedy developers. I know from my own first-hand experience that Remedy sales is now hawking Remedy as a complete, ITIL-driven IT enterprise management suite rather than as a development platform. BMC jumped off the cliff when they decided to throw their hat into the ITIL ring. To me, having to own and run ARS with an alleged OOTB ITIL enterprise suite (the monster that it is) is just a bizarre contrivance. It "just wound up that way." If you buy Microsoft Exchange do you have to buy the Microsoft Visual Studio along with it? Now I know people are going to throw out the, "Well they know they can't make a perfect app for everyone so it has to be customizable...blah, blah, blah..." No, it's not customizable. Not in a practical sense, anyway. Here's why: A) It's a monster. Good luck trying to figure out what everything does. How do you figure it out? Clickety-clickety...clickety-clickety...clickety-clickety...and that's for over 20,000 code objects. At that rate it would take a good developer a year or more to reverse engineer it all. B) If you somehow DO successfully customize it, as soon as BMC releases a patch or an upgrade, your customization could very well go BYE BYE! Any you know what? For what? What does a "successful" deployment of ITSM get you? I'm convinced the reason why so many members of the ARSList are on the ITSM/ITIL bandwagon is because they want to remain gainfully employed and not because ITSM is a good product. Just my thoughts. Norm _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
