Originally Posted By: dkmarsh
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...the huge business computing market - where cutting-edge technology is demanded...

I don't know which planet you're reporting on, but it ain't this one. This planet is one in which former COBOL programmers came out of mothballs in the late 1990s to patch active code so old the Y2K problem wasn't even on the radar when it was written. IT departments are, in fact, notoriously anti-cutting edge. How do you think the Blackberry stayed prevalent so long?

Surely, even a historian can be more forward thinking than that!

I'm anticipating technology that generates orders from the top down, not requests from the bottom up.

Edit: As usual, you responded to an out of context portion of my post, which really read

Originally Posted By: artie
...the huge business computing market - where cutting-edge technology is demanded and money is readily available if its expenditure is justified...

and Y2K demonstrated that money is readily available when its expenditure is justified. (Why even mention Y2K? Did IT ever try to sweep it under the rug?)

Last edited by artie505; 05/14/13 07:39 AM.
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