On Jan 14, 2008, at 1:07 AM, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) wrote:
In the late 1980's, Gartner predicted that any company
that didn't move from the mainframe to client/server
would not be in business for very long.
In the mid-to-late 1990's, the same analyst said that
companies were having problems migrating to c/s, and
they had probably jumped on the bandwagon too soon.
And in the mid-to-late 2000's, management still
blindly believes in the predictions of said company...
Peter:
WAAAy back in the 70's and 80's I vaguely remember they had a decent
reputation. Does anyone know what happened to them?
Ed
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