Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 01:16:45 -0400 From: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net> To: winter@jurai.net Cc: danderso@crystalsugar.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PCWeek article by Anne Chen -- Comments Message-ID: <19990506011645R.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 5 May 1999 15:49:41 -0400 (EDT)" <Pine.BSF.4.02.9905051544390.471-100000@sasami.jurai.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9905051544390.471-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
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From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
Subject: Re: PCWeek article by Anne Chen -- Comments
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 15:49:41 -0400 (EDT)
> On Wed, 5 May 1999, Dale Anderson wrote:
> > [...] often our job performance is rated on up-time.
Usually by pointy-haired little men with a mean streak :^P
>
> Won't be using Linux in that case. :)
>
> > For these reasons, we like native applications over "Emulated
> > enviroments."
>
> You guys must hate AS/400s.
That's a pretty good one. Even the S/38, from which the AS/400 was
derived, was an emulated environment (virtual machine). DP/MIS/IT folks
loved both but I just couldn't stand RPG. *blech*
IBM's "secret" systems programming tools weren't that bad though.
>
> Anyone who brandishes an IT title is more than likely clueless. Why must
> people continue to reinvforce this again and again?
>
Most of the IT people I've seen brandishing their titles around Unix
places seem to be the retrained types, mostly from CICS backgrounds
and are often busy porting legacy CICS/COBOL code to Java/CORBA.
Every so often, this subculture decides to change what it calls itself.
Over my career of nearly twenty years it's been:
1. Data Processing This period was notable for the
sheer mass of stupid software
which was written to appease
pointy-haired little men with
stupid ideas.
Nobody ever got fired for buying
IBM.
2. Management Information Systems During this period AI/CASE was
strongly advocated as a silver
bullet to avoid hiring a horde
of programmers to develop even
more stupid programs which were
being demanded by pointy-haired
little men.
This generation was formed by the
replacements for those who got
fired for buying IBM.
Nobody ever got fired for buying
a Vax.
3. Information Technology This is our current evolutionary
regression. The current end-all
solution is to write stupid programs
demanded by pointy-haired little
men with stupid ideas exclusively
in Java, using CORBA as the mechanism
used to communicate stupidity rapidly
throughout the enterprise network.
This generation is mostly controlled
by the replacements for the folks
who got fired for buying Vaxes.
After all, nobody ever gets fired for
buying Microsoft.
:-)
Cheers,
Jerry Hicks
wghicks@bellsouth.net
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