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In my opinion managers and most technical people are ensconced in their chosen tachnology and only go to the dark side and change their stripes during life altering events, if ever.

Managers use political power to get projects done in their chosen technology, and whoever has the most horsepower wins.

It's that simple.

Numbers wise, most managers come from Windows and they will implement "departmental" solutions on Windows at all costs.

Has nothing to do with unbiased reasoning based on cost effectiveness.

Whatever numbers are needed, they will make up or rationalize.

A game changer would be open source software that makes more effective use of the i5/OS infrasture than similar software on Windows. Could even be current open source software ported to i5/OS, including PHP using PHP toolkit functionality for a PHP experiemce that can't be reproduced anywhere else.

But open source solutions not limited to PHP by any means.

rd


Aaron Bartell wrote:
Eventually, yes, CIO's and the like are making the decisions *some* times
(ie. when a high profile project is set to use a non-company-standard
technology), but that is usually based on some sort of pilot project or
senior programmer recommendation. What I am saying is that a lot of these
suggested technology directions come from the bottom up and then the CIO
makes a decision (usually based on the name he sees the most in trade
rags).

But it could very well be that we have lived in completely different
scenarios, so I am not going to discount you words.

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Maurice O'Prey <maurice.oprey@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Aaron Bartell Wrote:

That dynamic is the fact that programmers are more and more deciding
which
platform the >>business will be running on based on development tools.

Aaron

To me it seems like the CEO/MDs are deciding (not the developers). This
means (in some cases) goodbye to the iSeries (their opinion not mine).
Having conflict about the technology that should be run does not really
help
the case much either (IMHO), it simply makes them (the businesses)
technology agnostic (and go for the business solution). After that it is
not
in the hands of the developers as today's IT world is fast moving (and it
is
moving).

Maurice O'Prey



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