>Folks hate to hear me say it, but just about everything we "know" about IT >>today is wrong. We're never going back to the home grown development >cottage >industry and sooner or later the in-house IT function is going to >go the way >of the dodo too.
Well, what I know is that when companies built their own applications, they talked about gaining a competitive advantage. When's the last time anyone heard that? When companies built their own applications, they could last twenty years or more. What's the life expectancy today? When companies built their own applications, the applications did exactly what was required by the business instead of requiring the business to change to accommodate the software. Does one size really fit all? Will we ever go back? Perhaps not, but outsourcing application development or buying off the shelf software may be more fad than panacea. Bob Shannon Rocket Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
