Pure Play Maintenance Costs Consuming IT Budgets? 39
ContractualObligatio asks: "The Register asks the question of whether businesses are at risk of having no budget to develop code, from maintaining too many 'pure play' applications. What has the experience been among Slashdot readers? Are people spending too much time maintaining code and integrations because the business is adopting too many applications? Do IT teams have the time and money to actually improve and innovate the way their companies do business?"
Too much to do to get work done? What? (Score:2)
No, sorry, I think this is just 'slownewsday' stuff.
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Re:Too much to do to get work done? What? (Score:4, Insightful)
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Even worse for zOS is the complete luddism of most develeopers. DTL, PDSE, and FTP have been around for years, and still they code panels the hard way, compress PDS datasets weekly, and use IND$FILE to move data about.
Grrrrr.
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hahahahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHhahahahaha . . .
Go on, pull the other one.
OK, ok, I'll be serious for a second. What about:
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Let me take the opportunity to welcome you to planet Earth. Things work a bit different here.
As a programmer that is still supporting MSDOS programs I "wrote well" in the early 90s, I feel I am entitled to comment.
You've forgotten that things change. Business needs change. The third party apps you integrate with change. The programming languages change. Hell, even the operating system changes
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pure play? (Score:5, Interesting)
The article doesn't define "pure play" applications. Is this a common term of art in IT? Google shows "pure play" defined on investing sites as a firm that concentrates on one type of product.
I'm going to guess here... (Score:3, Informative)
So, kind of a limited version of the old *nix ethic. Do one thing, but
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Market analysts created the term "pure-play"
Who let market analysts on slashdot? The quoted definition, while worth the attempt to find it, makes even less sense. I'm still trying to get my head around "application taxonomy." Someone obviously got a new thesaurus this week.
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Sounds awfully Web 1.0 to me!
The only thing worse than this is some crappy quote from Tim O'Reilly (I think?) trying to define "Web 2.0":
WTF is that?
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-Eric
Translation attempt... (Score:2)
I think that's what it's saying.
they mean "powerplay" (Score:2)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPlay_(technolog
I'm not surprised so many IT departments are having trouble implementing it - the bleeding edge technology is probably conflicting with their DMAs and compromising their cookies.
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The ISPs are going to need to spend a fair amount of money to be compliant with PowerPlay. But how they get that back is up to them. Some will have a tiered service, and some will just try to recoup their investment through reduced customer churn and customer acquisition.
That's the last thing we need - to give the ISPs another incentive to go after tiered services.
Dan East
You can spend 100% of your IT budget on anything (Score:2)
BTW, I thought it was called "best of breed", not "pure play".
"Pure play"? (Score:3, Funny)
One step further (Score:2)
while(time < fiveoclock)
{
something = new makesomething();
assemblyline.push(something);
}
Job's done!
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Ahem. Not to be too anal about your code, but this would certainly cause some issues (most notably with disgruntled workers at the office at odd hours.) Perhaps you should add some additional logic such as (time > eightam), (time <> lunchtime), etc.
What if sugar doesn't leave enough $$ for coffee? (Score:2)
Wow, an inane hypothetical. How is this news for nerds?
text is too large - OMG! (Score:3, Interesting)
I work at a pretty decent sized hedge fund. We have been growing since before I arrived, and continue to do so at what I feel is a fairly rapid pace. In order to seem "current" and keep up with the market, our trading desk has been expanding into unholy amounts of new investment strategies. Lots of fun OTC derivatives, energy markets, weather, pollution trading, etc.
This is all well and good on the face of it, but i
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The nineties called - they want their Enron back...
Hey Darryl! (Score:2)
ouch (Score:2)
Ignore the buzzwords and this is old news (Score:2)
It's not enough to know C++; you have to know ACE. It's not enough to know Ruby; you have to know Rails. It's not enough to know Java; you have to know Struts and Tapestry and Spring and Hibernate and JDO and POJOs and Tomcat and JBoss (or some other application server) and SOAP and REST and JMS and JNI and JNDI and .
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The one problem with this, as mentioned
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Was it more or less time than I would have spent designing and developing my own Log4j work-alike?
Let's Play Buzzword Bingo (Score:1)
Oh yes (Score:4, Interesting)
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"See, I've got this idea to create this product that will guarantee delivery of your message to your intended deliveree using the internet by the mere click of a button and you'll see that confirmation of said delivery 'immediately'. It will cost $20M to produce and $2M/year on enhancements (maintenance), and it will be rock solid."
Current costs of sending a memo to secretary? $20/year.
Considering the source (Score:2)
A sales rep for a software company says rolling your own software is a bad idea. Big surprise.
Dave Clarke vs HP (Score:1)
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Currently battling this problem (Score:1)
The problem is because IT development is seen as needless expense (besides the fact that it holds the company together). We are the "plumbers" of the company, just fixing the "internets tubes" and computers which "dump st