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From:
<Steve_Domarski/[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2006 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: Another long slow decline.
... Yet I can do anything they ask with in a
reasonable time frame.
... It's been a joy to build and maintain...
... I built
this site because it was needed and I could. Not because it met a
particular price performance objective.
What is going to happen when the Vendors begin refusing to make the
changes to there COST products desired by the elected official...
<snip>
The additional cost of doing new things on VM is minimal as you can
prototype something workable quickly. And you can add to it as it proves
itself. And as it proves itself, it justifies more time spent. Incremental
or grass roots development is one way to bring about new applications. It
seems a way of the past.
Management isn't interested in that model. They want a vendor to promise
them something that they need, something forward looking. Something with all
the features already in it (or at least all the features that YOUR company
could possibly need ;-). Management doesn't want to be in the application
development business. That is frequently a blind attitude, as IT can be a
differentiator in the business world. (I wonder if that is less so in the
government sector.) But as you and others have pointed out in this thread,
the piper gets paid later.
Unfortunately, once VM is gone there, it will be very difficult to justify
bringing it back in for anything. The bridge will have been burnt. The
vendors will have won.
Paul Nieman
PS.
I sympathize with your stay or go dilemma.
