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EDS' Next Big Thing Blog: Read and Respond to What the EDS Fellows Say About Technology

Read and respond to what the EDS Fellows have to say about the future of technology on EDS' Next Big Thing Blog on eds.com.

Tuesday, November 29, 2005 - Posts

The intersection of sixty-year old Cobol baby boomers and a forty-year old computer architecture

Next year some baby boomer Cobol programmers will celebrate their sixtieth birthday and the IBM 360 mainframe architecture will have endured for just over two thirds of those sixty years. In other words, programmers around the world have been creating a legacy of mission critical business applications, under the same standard language and architecture for over forty years.

Posted Tuesday, November 29, 2005 8:39 PM by Tom Hill | 4 Comments

IT project failures

I was exchanging emails with Dennis Howlett about his thoughts on improving EDS' blog. He posted an entry about this blog and so an e-mail discuss ensued. In the process of that discussion, he wondered what I thought about this article from Accounting Age magazine discussing an analysis by KPMG of IT project failures.

Posted Tuesday, November 29, 2005 7:08 PM by Charlie Bess | 7 Comments

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