Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Katherine Derbyshire who wrote (20520)	6/17/1998 1:30:00 PM
From: Ian@SI	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 70976

Katherine, Absolutely every concern in your post is valid. I presume that you're a journalist (and a very competent one at that, IMO) and you're quite aware of the issue. My point is that "So is the rest of the English speaking world at the very least". How long do you think that the CIO, Maintenance Manager or others in the IT management stream will keep their jobs if a corporation suffers a serious business outage having lasting effects on Revenue, Service or product quality? I further believe that these people are fully aware that they'll get "chain-sawed" if they don't do what they're being paid to do. ... and that they are generally a competent group of people. As Clark Hare pointed out, problems have occurred and been fixed. This will continue. My second point is that problems may be bypassed with relatively little effort and time. Only when one decides to implement the 100% bulletproof correction does the task become near impossible. A continuum will continue to exist. Some programs do work and will continue to do so. Some won't and will be scrapped. Others will be patched and eventually scrapped or replaced. Others will be allowed to fail indefinitely for a variety of reasons which boil down to "it just doesn't matter". And yes, some have to be prevented or people might die. FWIW, Ian.