On Wed, 2004-12-29 at 10:41, Robert Treharne Jones wrote:
> Did an OOH session yesterday - it was as busy as anyone could have expected,
> but what made matters interesting was the way in which the county-wide
> computer system went down (again).
Not everyone may know that the ex-manager of DDOC - Mr Brian Baggot -
was recently imprisoned after postponing trial for a long time on
grounds of ill-health.
He it was that suddenly (and quite surprisingly to me at the time)
arranged to migrate from AdAstra which had seemed to me to be running OK
and whose interface was good for what it was used for, _and_ not a
Windows interface, to Knight Owl. This seemed an excessive response to
being told we needed larger hard drives even then.
We now understand that the purpose will have been to confuse matters a
little more and stir up the accounting, thus delaying another sort of
accounting, but at the time it seemed weird.
The lesson to draw from this is that sudden changes in IT strategy or
the tools with which that strategy is implemented may not be related to
any IT objective or business objective, but rather to camouflaging
managerial diversions and shortcomings.
Of course, that was a complete one off, right.
--
Adrian Midgley FLOSS regularly
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