In my experience, when the "kids" suggest their idea is better than the old fart's way of doing things, they MAY be right, but what they do not take in to account is the massive amount of time/effort/$$$ to get form the "old ways" to their "perfect way"
I am reminded of when in 1975 I was taking computer programming classes as a freshman at "The" Ohio State University (anyone else remember Baker Hall?) - my PL/I instructor was quite certain that by 1980 PL/I would replace both COBOL and FORTRAN as the dominant computer programming language - and had there been no investment to that point in computer code, he MIGHT (I repeat MIGHT) have been right - but he (in my opinion) failed to consider (as in the discussion above) what it would cost to UNDO what had accumulated before we could move forward with the NEW idea ..... Chris hoelscher Technology Architect | Database Infrastructure Services Technology Solution Services 123 East Main Street |Louisville, KY 40202 [email protected] Humana.com (502) 476-2538 – office (502) 714-8615 - blackberry Keeping CAS and Metavance safe for all HUMANAty The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain CONFIDENTIAL material. If you receive this material/information in error, please contact the sender and delete or destroy the material/information. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
