Comments on: Religious Wars and One Trick Ponies http://www.angryarchitect.com/?p=193 Sun, 22 Aug 2010 02:58:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Imhotep http://www.angryarchitect.com/?p=193&cpage=1#comment-19 Imhotep Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:05:44 +0000 http://www.angryarchitect.com/?p=193#comment-19 Firstly, Raul I'd like to say thanks for taking the trouble of actually engaging. The more the merrier I say. You're right Raul we all reflect ourselves this is why it's important as architects to realize and accept that and try to understand ourselves. The article was not about technology, it was about behavior and ethics. The consultants in question lacked the skills necessary to even discuss mainframe options and it would have been appropriate for them to disqualify themselves. They had started out as liars with the aim of becoming thieves. Justifying the behavior because the "mainframe is dead" is a fallacious argument on two levels. Firstly, it's mixing technology and ethics, trying to justify an ethical breech by turning it into a technical issue. Secondly, even if it were a technology question as they had no skills they were in no position to offer a qualified opinion. This was uneducated opinion and self interest over analysis and the clients best interest; very poor architecture. Obviously, they were so close to heaven that they had no need of facts. If they had been correct it would have been by luck alone as there would have been no other influence. Employing consultants should be better than chance. After all what are they selling? Firstly, Raul I’d like to say thanks for taking the trouble of actually engaging. The more the merrier I say. You’re right Raul we all reflect ourselves this is why it’s important as architects to realize and accept that and try to understand ourselves.

The article was not about technology, it was about behavior and ethics. The consultants in question lacked the skills necessary to even discuss mainframe options and it would have been appropriate for them to disqualify themselves. They had started out as liars with the aim of becoming thieves.

Justifying the behavior because the “mainframe is dead” is a fallacious argument on two levels. Firstly, it’s mixing technology and ethics, trying to justify an ethical breech by turning it into a technical issue. Secondly, even if it were a technology question as they had no skills they were in no position to offer a qualified opinion. This was uneducated opinion and self interest over analysis and the clients best interest; very poor architecture. Obviously, they were so close to heaven that they had no need of facts. If they had been correct it would have been by luck alone as there would have been no other influence.

Employing consultants should be better than chance. After all what are they selling?

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]]> By: Raul Duque http://www.angryarchitect.com/?p=193&cpage=1#comment-16 Raul Duque Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:35:54 +0000 http://www.angryarchitect.com/?p=193#comment-16 Interesting comment that reflects your point of view. You reflect yourself when you say "... I look down on these people ...", so you are really up, almost in heaven, aren't you? Your point is correct, however they were also correct. If such a big consultancy does not have mainframe skills is because mainframe is dying. And because of this, it is very risky for such organization not to have Unix skills. My point: IT Architecture in itself is important but not the most important architectural discipline, Enterprise Architecture is. Enterprise Architecture aims to align Business and IT perspectives. Business do require to have cost reductions initiatives and better time-to-market, so being more agile. And that is something mainframe do not provide nowadays. Interesting comment that reflects your point of view. You reflect yourself when you say “… I look down on these people …”, so you are really up, almost in heaven, aren’t you?

Your point is correct, however they were also correct. If such a big consultancy does not have mainframe skills is because mainframe is dying. And because of this, it is very risky for such organization not to have Unix skills.

My point: IT Architecture in itself is important but not the most important architectural discipline, Enterprise Architecture is. Enterprise Architecture aims to align Business and IT perspectives. Business do require to have cost reductions initiatives and better time-to-market, so being more agile. And that is something mainframe do not provide nowadays.

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