On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:55:02 -0600, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >On 16 Aug 2006 08:28:34 -0700, "Mickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Moving to a PC based platform is the best way I know of to engage in >>empire building. I oft times suspect that some managers do it for just >>that reason. Managing 5 people makes you a manager, managing 40 makes >>you a big muckity-muck. >> >>Mickey - PC stupid and staying that way > > >Sort of. The way to increase your empire is to increase your >responsibilities that require an empire. The way to fund this is >incrementally. > >The incremental cost of providing a single Web based service to your >customers is low. Get an intern and a PC and you have a demo >project. > >Slowly build on it until it until you have your empire. At that >time, it can be determined that the applications would be more >efficient on a mainframe - but conversion is expensive. > >The advantage of PCs isn't cost - it's agility. The manager who >wants to innovate picks the platform that allows him to be in control. > >For the most part, that's good (not for us, but for the company). But >recently we have discovered the costs of not having secure, reliable >data. Centralized databases and database security is the new >bailiwick for mainframes. Forget the applications - they will >continue to move towards the more agile platforms. But security and >reliability need to be rock solid. Which means centralized, where >the mainframe has a cost advantage. > Unfortunately, the application is the entity invoking the security so if it is compromised and can log on with the appropriate authority, the mainframe will spill all information associated with that application. Given that and the difficulty of building security into any application regardless of platform, I really wonder how secure mainframe applications are, especially when they have to be accessed via the Internet.
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