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- Path: sparky!uunet!mercury.hsi.com!wright
- From: wright@hsi.com (Gary Wright)
- Subject: Re: Is Client-Server dead?
- Message-ID: <Bxwz4p.4tq@hsi.com>
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- Organization: 3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford CT
- References: <1992Nov17.111656@is.morgan.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 13:36:25 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- In article <1992Nov17.111656@is.morgan.com>
- mpiet@is.morgan.com (Mark Pietrasanta) writes:
- >How do we IS'ers
- >maintain our role (or any role) as the business units start to
- >welcome the new peer philosophy? Especially if they embrace
- >Microsoft's solutions, which will mean they can support and
- >develop with minimal man-hours and without IS?
-
- A rose by any other name ...
-
- I always laugh when I see someone claim that client/server, PC's/
- peer-peer etc. systems can be supported and developed without IS.
-
- Now I would tend to agree that traditional IS groups may have
- trouble with this but certainly the skills required to design,
- install, support, etc a complex heterogeneous LAN environment
- are the same skills required to run a large central computer center.
- The details change, but the concepts are much the same.
-
- In fact in some ways is harder to administer to the needs of a
- distributed PC based environment. Just think about making reliable
- backups for all those PCs.
-
- What needs to happen is that the IS group must change its structure
- and the services it offers so that the smaller groups within your
- organization can rely on you to continue to manage their systems.
- Why should each of these smaller groups being hiring (or drafting)
- PC and network experts? Usually they take what they can get from
- there existing staff instead of hiring a skilled/trained person.
- --
- Gary Wright ...!uunet!hsi!wright
- 3M Health Information Systems wright@hsi.com
-