I wonder if these types of situations will cause the pendulum to swing back more towards roll-your-own software.
There has been a slight slowdown of buying canned packages for various reasons because of the hurdles of customizing for one's particular environment or redoing your business processes to fit canned software. Of course, that doesn't help things such as operating systems or TP monitors or databases, but at least if you roll your own applications, debugging remains in house and theoretically under your control - unless you outsource, which is another can of worms... Later, Ray -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt Sent: Wednesday July 26 2006 12:41 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Associated Press: 540,000 New Yorkers at Risk of Identity Theft Sadly, I must disagree. The auditors are going to be all over *us* demanding that *we* plug the hole caused by a missing laptop. All we can reasonably do is demand credentials before we let you see the data. But we don't have any realistic way to positively prevent your misuse of that data. Sigh. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 7:44 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Associated Press: 540,000 New Yorkers at Risk of Identity Theft The IT staff at CS Stars, a Chicago-based independent insurance brokerage, and at the State of New York, decided it was a smart idea to use a personal computer to shuttle data between the State's system and the brokerage's. Then the personal computer, housed in "a secured facility" (hah), went "missing." AP has the story: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14015598/ This incident has absolutely nothing to do with mainframes. - - - - - Timothy F. Sipples Consulting Enterprise Software Architect, z9/zSeries Tokyo (Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
