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MAINFRAMES STILL POPULAR,
BUT WHO'S GOING TO PROGRAM THEM? 13 February 2001
When two of IBM's biggest competitors, Amdahl and Hitachi, announced they were withdrawing from the mainframe market, Cutter Consortium decided to look into the current demand of mainframes.
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The Value of Planning
A variant of a quote from Dwight Eisenhower goes something like: the value of the plan is not in the plan itself, but in the planning. As we think about putting together good sourcing activities -- whether acquiring a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) package, outsourcing some development work, or outsourcing a whole IT organization -- planning is critical.
With all of the gloomy stories about the dot-com collapse, you might get the impression that the high-tech jobs associated with all of those failed companies have vanished. If pets.com and this.com and that.com have all gone bankrupt, then will we really need all of those Java programmers? If the dot-com industry has laid off 20,000-30,000 people in the past year, are they all still unemployed?
Well, not a startup exactly.
I have recently been closely involved with an organization that is incubating a new Web-based service business within a much larger company. An "internal startup," if you like.
If business projects are part of your profession, you know that many projects fail to live up to their potential. Some projects fail to achieve their schedule or budget goals or fail to deliver everything initially promised. Other projects simply fail altogether. Many of the problems faced by projects can be avoided, or at least contained, by effective project management practices.
