On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 11:11 PM, Ed Gould <[email protected]> wrote:
> Scott: > > I am far from an expert in these areas but here are some thoughts. > From what little I have seen here in IL here are some guesses: > 1. Budgets are not only bare bones but are downright disgraceful. Year > after year the budgets are FROZEN and that means doing less with no new > equipment. The 3270's are cheap shells and are filthy due to smoking in > most cases they aren't 3270's at all but are cheaply made replacements. > 2. Politicians regularly rob peter to pocket the money in another budget > leaving zero dollars for replacements. > 3. Politicians stealing the money and pocketing it. > 4. no one wants to raise taxes to pay for anything so equipment deteriates > and the same goes for wages. > 5. Working for the state is a dead end job money wise. > > ANd on and on.... Run your comments through the following regexp and I will agree: s/politicians/people in higher authority positions/gi I actually had a CIO tell me that we would _not_ be doing any mainframe software (CICS in particular) upgrades this (20 yrs ago, now) year, even though it was in the budget, because if he came in under that budget, he would get a nice bonus. And _that_ was his motivation, not doing a good job. IMO, this is why some really bright software developers work on FOSS projects, such as Linux. Yes, they need money. But they want to write good code too. Without the political hassles of "just make it good enough to sell to the fools in the marketplace who don't know any better". I can't speak for others, but it appears to me that the average American consumer wants "good enough so long at it is cheap". Like a wino does not really care what he drinks, so long as he get drunk _now_, and so gets the really cheap stuff. It reminds me of a real old Sci-Fi book "These Savage Futurians", Philip E. High, in which our society collapsed because everything got centralized and made disposable products. And then that central site went down and the world fell apart because nobody could fix it or replace it. > > > Ed > > -- He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
