Yeah, "best practices", meaning somebody else came up with an idea - no matter how crazy - and in order to justify it, labeled it "best practice". Like "move everything to the cloud because it is cheaper, faster, more reliable, and more secure." Yeah, right. Cloud Flare took a huge dump today for multiple hours, causing disruptions to how many companies? How does that look to their much vaulted "security" and "reliability"?
Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Thompson Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2025 10:27 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Test Amen ("management by airline magazine." ) Now so many things are wrapped around "Best Practices". Sigh. Steve Thompson On 11/18/2025 8:55 AM, Robert Crawford wrote: > Just because companies are spending billions of dollars doesn't mean a > technology will work or is even worthwhile. The highway to distributed > systems is paved with money from failed projects to get off of the mainframe. > > We had the same situation in the 90's and called it "management by airline > magazine." > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
