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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (265695)	6/20/2002 10:29:05 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

With legacy integration systems available now it is no longer a business architecture hurdle. That type of problem is now well understood. The problem is policy and political issue. In a former life my responsibity was to integrate very large legacy systems, among dozens of jealous departments, by designing the definition of data elements, and of resultant extraction processes. The problem is much, much more basic than the b.s. thrown up by the businessweek article: it is the question of who owns the data, and what should be released. As all the reports by all agencies have shown, it was NOT a lack of information that failed to foil the hijackers, that's a false assertion. THey had the data. It was a failure of will, and of leadership within the agencies to deal with that data, and the buck stops at the top. No one at the top can escape responsibility, regardless of the data architecture issue.