Comments on: One end user’s comments on the mainframe dilemma http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/mainframe-blog/one-end-users-comments-on-the-mainframe-dilemma/ ACRHIVED. Please visit our new blog at: http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/data-center/ Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:35:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: Spintreebob http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/mainframe-blog/one-end-users-comments-on-the-mainframe-dilemma/#comment-13 Spintreebob Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:43:39 +0000 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/mainframe-blog/one-end-users-comments-on-the-mainframe-dilemma/#comment-13 You’d think that especially in IT, decisions would be based on facts and logic. But in my many years of consulting to many shops that does not appear to be the case.

For a time the fad was [I]nobody was ever fired for buying blue[/I].

Now we have the flavor of the month in terms of both hardware and software. SOA? Virtualization? ITIL? My product claims to be both, depending on what’s hot and what’s not.

In reality technology only needs 2 tiers, the user’s PC with a browser, memory and diskdrive and a database server. All the multi-tier hype is a creation of vendors who realize that the more tiers and the more complexity they can put in the flavor of the month, the more hardware and software products they can sell.

Z’s big challenge is to convince decision makers who want to play it safe by buying what everyone else is buying that the cost of the complexity of a multi-tier system is more than the cost of having all that complexity loaded into a single complete system.

But so far that sales pitch is not cool. It’s not hip. So we continue with emotional decisions rather than logical decisions.

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