IT is dead, long live EBI!

Post #77,639 by gdaustin 1/28/03 5:55:37 PM 1/28/03 6:02:42 PM Reply	IT is dead, long live EBI! Enterprise Business Integration The problem is that IT is boring now, and apparently not worth very much... [link\|http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20030127/bs_nf/20580\|Business Integration Spending to Surpass IT] Companies want to focus on "business integration", and "making it all work together". That's the cool, sexy stuff. Redesigning processes. Linking systems. Forget about the poor schlops who trudge around day to day running fixpaks on mundane things like SQL Server. Those fixpaks just don't matter do they? Might as well hire a $6 an hour flunkie or H1B to do them, right? So, think in terms of learning Mercator, BEA, TIBCO, WebSphere, MQSeries, etc. That's where the jobs are... Until enough SQL Servers crash and burn that business leaders decide that IT is "important" again... Glen Edited by gdaustin Jan. 28, 2003, 06:00:55 PM EST IT is dead, long live Business Integration! The problem is that computers, even big ones, are boring now. [link\|http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20030127/bs_nf/20580\|Business Integration Spending to Surpass IT] Companies want to focus on "business integration", and "making it all work together". That's the cool, sexy stuff. Redesigning processes. Linking systems. Forget about the poor schlops who trudge around day to day running fixpaks on mundane things like SQL Server. Those fixpaks just don't matter do they? Might as well hire a $6 an hour flunkie or H1B to do them, right? So, think in terms of learning Mercator, BEA, TIBCO, WebSphere, MQSeries, etc. That's where the jobs are... Until enough SQL Servers crash and burn that business leaders decide that computers are "important" again... Glen Edited by gdaustin Jan. 28, 2003, 06:01:55 PM EST Edited by gdaustin Jan. 28, 2003, 06:02:42 PM EST IT is dead, long live EBI! Enterprise Business Integration The problem is that IT is boring now, and apparently now worth very much... [link\|http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20030127/bs_nf/20580\|Business Integration Spending to Surpass IT] Companies want to focus on "business integration", and "making it all work together". That's the cool, sexy stuff. Redesigning processes. Linking systems. Forget about the poor schlops who trudge around day to day running fixpaks on mundane things like SQL Server. Those fixpaks just don't matter do they? Might as well hire a $6 an hour flunkie or H1B to do them, right? So, think in terms of learning Mercator, BEA, TIBCO, WebSphere, MQSeries, etc. That's where the jobs are... Until enough SQL Servers crash and burn that business leaders decide that IT is "important" again... Glen Expand All History \| Collapse All History
Post #77,656 by Ashton 1/28/03 8:52:47 PM Reply	And That isn't even sarcasm!___:( Ignorance is Hard --
Post #78,104 by TTC 1/30/03 2:47:38 PM Reply	Re: And That isn't even sarcasm!___:( Ignorance is Hard -- At least they are consistent... [link\|http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/01/24/2002TOY-sb_1.html\|Their TestCenter's 2002 Technology of the Year Award winners] includes Award Winner, XML Web services: Microsoft Office 11 Part of XML's mission has always been to manage the data that lives in ordinary business documents. The forthcoming Office 11, with its deep support for XML Schema, will help make that vision real. Test Center Analysis: XML for the rest of us Test Center Review: Microsoft Office 11 Beta: Cornering the office Test Center Analysis: Open for business Still giving awards to BETAs!
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