Tony, >>>when will the average Fortune 500 CIO bet his job, and company, on it...' <<<
I was hoping that you could give us more insight into this area.
My own feeling is that a lot of the younger CIO's, in their early 30's, are quite perplexed by now. They have had exposure in graduate or business school to opens sytems philosophy, visual computing, OOPL, client server architecture and then they step into a world where they are still throwing around terms like MVS, JCL, TSO, COBOL, CICS, VTAM, et al. I doubt they hire many technicians from computer science departments from Dartmouth, Stanford, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Cal Berkeley, or MIT.
The people they work for have kids that play Mortal Kombat, Download audio and video, and yet in the work place they are still dealing with static reports and character based computing with arcane coding requirements.
I would think they they are under enormous pressure to come up with something significantly more modern.
Anyhow, you could probably tell us much more about that than I ever could.
Regards,
Mary
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