On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 13:20:59 -0500, Chris Craddock <[email protected]> wrote:
>... >Realistically no company in its right mind is going to invest development >and maintenance effort in something they can buy and have somebody >else on the hook for maintaining it. That's what all the buzz about >*-as-a-service is about. ... >... >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. ... That is probably the inevitable future, but the time frame is not at all clear, and the ecomonic break-even line between "do it in-house" and "buy it" changes over time. When you pass development and maintenance over to an outside vendor you also pass off control. The vendor's "service" had better be a very good match to the business needs or the economic advantage disappears. Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
