In <[email protected]>, on 08/15/2013
at 11:09 AM, David Crayford <[email protected]> said:
>Well said! I've been lucky in that I've never worked at a customer
>site which had such stupid rules. In fact it's always been the other
>way round where the application folks had the power. SYSPROGs and
>service delivery were seen as money spenders, not money makers.
Applications and systems are *both* service centers; neither is a
money maker. Both are money spenders. Allowing applications to make
arbitrary unilateral decision is as bad as allowing systems to make
arbitrary unilateral decisions. In both cases, bad decisions impose
costs on others.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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