Re: Interesting article...

While the question was rhetorical, I guess this just proves
that most companies motiviation these days is the almighty
dollar, not providing assistance..

But that's just stating the obvious that the world tends to
ignore until it affects them and it's too late.

Yet another example of businesses using the goverment as a
business plan.  :)

Brad

On Tue, 3 May 2005 16:28:45 -0500
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> And it would upset the sponsors of the magazine.
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> Will they ever write about the $50 million dollar
> mistakes
> some have made by getting off a legacy system?
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> On Tue, 3 May 2005 16:03:06 -0400
>  "Wilt, Charles" <CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > All,
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> > Ran across this article which I found quite
> > interesting....
> > 
> > Bound To Fail
> > The crash of a critical legacy system at Comair is a
> > classic risk management mistake that cost the airline
> $20
> > million and badly damaged its reputation.
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> > http://www.cio.com/archive/050105/comair.html
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> > How many of us are working with a legacy application
> > system held together by spit and duct tape that we know
> > really should be replaced?
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> > Charles Wilt
> > iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
> > Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
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