On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:03:05 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> wrote:
>>In either case there are DOCUMENTS. The documents are not retired, fired, died. > >But, they are lost, incomplete, or misunderstood. > >>We're not talikng about group of PFCSK and bunch of PCs for gaming, we're talking about professional team. >>Mainframe specialists! > >Who, unfortunately, are only human. >Sh*t happens! > >People, docs, source code, contracts, libraries, etc., are lost, misplaced, or (in some cases) destroyed, all the time. > I have been involved in a situation where my employer purchased a company whose data processing was being performed by a third party, and the decision had been made to bring the data processsing in-house to our data center. We brought over whatever software they thought they needed from their previous processor. In some cases, they owned a license but were no longer paying maintenance, so no documention was available. It was never clear that all of the installed software was actually required. In some cases, we had good reason to believe that some of the software was not really needed, but we could never get the business unit to agree to remove it from the system, and to stop paying for it. So: People - original installers were long gone Docs - unavailable Source code - what source code? Contracts - proves it's legal, but not that it's used. Libraries - proves it's there, but not that it's used. Jeff Holst Fiserv Philadelphia, PA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
