Resources to help you Ride the Swing(SM)
The computing and communications industry is in constant motion.
A 1995 article, entitled "Riding the Swing," described the technology industry as a pendulum that never comes to rest. This pendulum
metaphor supports three observations about the use of
technology in business.
- The speed of the pendulum is often greater
than the organization’s
ability to react and respond. Stated differently, the time required
to capitalize on a new technology is often greater than the
life of the technology itself. This may explain the large number
of
partially implemented systems, networks and applications (and
frustrated users).
- The pendulum spends more time between end points
than it does at an end point. Thus, there are no ‘ultimate solutions’ there
are only a series of end points that will be visited briefly
over
time. The lesson here is very simple: don’t become
needlessly vested (organizationally or personally) in
any particular
technology or architecture.
- Whenever the pendulum
completes its swing, a ‘legacy’ is
left behind. Legacies are usually a collection
of mission-critical systems, networks and applications
that have not been migrated to newer technology. Unfortunately,
during the late-1980s and most of the 1990s, the
word ‘legacy’ came to have a negative
connotation. Now, we appear to be entering a period
when organizations
are once again rediscovering the value of their legacy
systems.
To help you ride the swing, we have started compiling
a list of links on integration ROI, XML, SOAP, web services, and
any
other
topics
relevant to CICS integration. If you have some suggestions, contact
us and provide the URL to whatever articles you think are valuable.
|
