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Story: IT is key to future business growth
Semantics?
My usage of words such as "destroying" is more for my own enjoyment, rather than any true sense of destruction. I'd agree that enabling would be another word that could be equally apt.
As far as interoperability, I agree wholeheartedly.
As far as decentralisation, I disagree. I've worked for Lloyds TSB through Fujitsu, and I've seen for myself what a mess things like security patching can be, particularly when one looks at not just the number of workstations and servers that are offline, but also the virtualisation trend thats approaching like a tidal wave ( run for your life).
Its much easier to manage one big machine than tens of thousands of small ones, and the support costs in a large business are truly staggering, if people only knew how much effeort needs to be employed due to the decentralised nature of the business.
I'd agree that being decentralised allows many benefits. These benefits must be measured against the hard costs that the accounts department are only too eager to tell us about.
But, how do you measure flexibility???
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