[Info-vax] RMS record metadata, was: Re: Re; Spiralog, RMS Journaling (was Re: FREESPADRIFT)

[Kerry Main]

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> Stephen Hoffman via Info-vax
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> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] RMS record metadata, was: Re: Re; Spiralog,
RMS
> Journaling (was Re: FREESPADRIFT)
> 
> On 2016-06-19 13:04:49 +0000, Kerry Main said:
> 
> > "New" technology does not necessarily mean "better".
> > What is so often over looked with "new technology" is that there
> > isalways a period of bugs, tweaks, unforeseen challenges &
> workarounds
> > that the early adopter has to address.
> >
> > In addition, techie marketing hype touting the "benefits" of new
> > techoften overlooks the challenges of highly customized & rock solid
> > businesslogic integrated with the "old" code.  That rock solid
business
> > logic is where the real added value of IT exists & Is often
supported
> > by more junior resources who do simple tweaks, butin no way would
> they
> > pretend that they could re-write the business logicusing some form
of
> > "cool" new technology.
> >
> > The marketing hype will often tout the expense of hiring resources
to
> > maintain the code so will spend $10M+ in a major redo of the
> > application that takes 2+ years  (often freezing current state
> > enhancements) in orderto save the cost of simply paying their
current
> > resources a bit more orhiring resources at more than what they would
> > get at other companies.
> >
> > Smarter companies have woken up to the hype and are now looking at
> > "upgrade-and-integrate" strategies vs. "rip-and-replace".
> 
> 
> Isn't this the flip-side of that "blue ocean" stuff you're fond of
pointing
> at?
> 

Nope - the blue oceans is for new service offerings. 

The approach above Is when you have an established service offering 
whereby there are SLA's and expectations from your user / business 
community.

The upgrade-and-integrate approach also takes into consideration the 
Integration of new service offerings with older ones. 


Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com