6 steps to IT management freedom

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Try forgetting about particular technologies for a change

and start thinking about the underlying principles.

I have the following quotation from Leslie Lamport pinned to my monitor "There is a very effective software development tool that is not used nearly enough--the brain. The many impediments to its proper use devised by computer scientists can be overcome".

This way you start thinking in terms of the problems you are trying to solve and then try and find the technology to be part of the solution.

As it stands, I know what I want, but no vendor can offer it to me at present (though some in the past have come closer than any current offerings). So I have to make do with what is available - but I try to judge what is available by standards not based on a specific technology.

Aside from that, I think a commitment to Unix*, in my experience, blinds many people to other possibilities. Apple, for example, seem light years adrift from the original conception of the Mac as a computing appliance without operating system (from a user perspective) and without applications.

* Of course commitment to Windows (or even to GUI in general) carries its own set of preconceptions -- I know I keep having to repeat that because if I criticise Unix it doesn't mean I love the beast of Redmond.

Posted by: jorwell   Posted on: 05/16/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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