DEATH OF THE DATABASE – PART VII: WHY DB PLATFORMS TAKE YEARS AND FORTUNES TO IMPLEMENT
October 22, 2009 at 4:00 PM | Posted in Death of the Database, Elegant Simplicity, Future of IT, Knowledge Management | Leave a commentTags: business processes, can-do spirit, complex operations, data, ERP solutions, Hubble telescope, IT companies, Knowledge Management, limitation of databases, MIT, simplicity, system integrators, Technology
Of all of the reasons that databases and most of the applications that sit on top of them should and eventually will die or evolve, we admit that this is the one that bothers us the most.
First of all, a company’s business processes should not be made to bend to a technology solution, and yet that is what many ERP solutions and other traditional database technologies ask of a company.
Going around the circle of technology
October 2, 2009 at 12:02 AM | Posted in Elegant Simplicity, Technical | 1 CommentTags: 60s, BNIs, common sense, engineers, innovation, iphone, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, miracle, MIT, NASA, President Kennedy, propeller, scientists, stratosphere, Styrofoam
Back in the early ‘60s, engineers and scientists were besides themselves to heed President Kennedy’s call to “send a man to the moon and bring him back safely before the end of the decade.”
They designed spacecrafts and rockets and telemetry and all the other things that made that period giddily exciting for the curious, Continue Reading Going around the circle of technology…
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