Posted in Architecture on May 29th, 2005 Comments Off
A great story from CIO.com on how a crash of a legacy system brought a US regional airline to a standstill for several days, and all that lead to that.
The replacement of the crew scheduling system was among those next on the list. But after nearly 15 years in use, the business had grown accustomed […]
Posted in Architecture on May 21st, 2005 Comments Off
Interesting to watch the dynamics and personal and corporate preferences towards buying a system off the shelf and getting something that is cheap and cheerful versus developing your own and ending up with something that is just right for your needs, but costs you more.
The first viewpoint from Philip Windley’s excellent essay on strategic planning […]
Posted in Architecture on May 21st, 2005 Comments Off
Great post from Seth Godin on why people are generally against change even if the change means making things better.