[Sigia-l] Are you ready for it?

[Listera]

"Richard_Dalton at vanguard.com" wrote:

> Ziya - your model of a small organization sounds wonderfully utopian,
> however, back in the Real World (TM) there is a need for large
> organizations and plenty of them around.

Oh yeah, the Real World, the rest of us girlie men wouldn't understand it.
:-)

For you, an anecdote:

About two years ago, conference room of one of the largest financial
companies in the world, 100% Windows shop, about a dozen VP-and-up
managers/IT folk discussing a huge, multi-million dollar web app.

I present a certain approach, open, flexible, scalable and ecumenical. One
guy gets up and, with dripping sarcasm, says "back on our planet [sounds
familiar?], we use COM/NT, end of discussion." I spend the next 20 minutes
explaining why that's a self-limiting approach and make a prediction that
well before the decade is over Linux will gain sufficient traction in the
financial industry for it to be considered and planned for now. No success.

Two years later, of the dozen or so people in that room, today only three
remain, the rest, along with 15,000 others from the same company, have been
laid off. The irony? Their projects/jobs have been outsourced to India and
Russia, where they are now, surprise, mostly Linux-based projects!

Yeah, gimme some of that large org religion. :-)

Ziya
Nullius in Verba