Re: "Welcome to the new IT Crisis"

>From one of the kings of hype - Marc Andreesson - one of the creators of the
Mosaic Browser at NCSA and formerly of Netscape?...

<LOL>

I also got a big laugh about a project that my current client is working on.
They have literally spent millions of dollars on a PC-based order entry
system developed in VB6.  When they determined that is was going to be too
difficult to manage it as a FAT client, they now have Citrix servers to
handle multiple order entry users through terminal services sessions...

Wait a minute!
Didn't we used to have multiple users on dumb terminals running green-screen
applications on a central AS/400?

Guess we have come full circle....

Now it's a PC-frame...not a main-frame...

Steve Landess
Austin, Texas
(512) 423-0935

----- Original Message -----
From: "John Myers - MM" <jmyersmm@sbsusa.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 3:45 PM
Subject: "Welcome to the new IT Crisis"


> This article (below) from ZDNet Tech Update Today helps me realize what
the
> "rest" of the IT world is going through ... and why I love my iSeries!
>
> How many of you spend 70% of your it budget on datacenter management?
>
> John
>
> How to avoid the new IT crisis
>
> With nearly 70 percent of enterprise IT budgets going toward
> data center management, Marc Andreessen says the IT world must
> reinvent itself or suffer the consequences. His portrait of the
> Fortune 500 data center isn't pretty: "Servers and applications
> are glued together using piece-parts, bailing wire, and chewing
> gum. Armies of systems administrators manually do their voodoo
> to keep the applications they support up and running." Andreessen
> claims the solution is automation and utility computing that will
> make IT as easy to use and run as the phone system. One caveat:
> Andreesson is CEO of Opsware, a provider of data center automation
> solutions. But that doesn't mean he's not right.
>
> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107-976655.html
>
> John Myers
> IBM Certified Specialist - IBM iSeries Technical Solutions Design
> IBM Certified Specialist - Advisor for e-Business
> Strategic Business Systems, Inc.
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