Bits, pieces, odds and ends:
A couple of weeks ago I gave Mark Gibbs the credit, but it was Abe Lincoln who said “People who like this sort of thing will find this to be the sort of thing they like,” long before Mark did.
Sorry Abe.
Not a correction:
Last week I said the worst of the worst when it came to budget-cuts would be decisions to defer non-discretionary spending.
The economy is ugly and will stay ugly for quite awhile to come. The impact on IT will be mixed. Worst of all: The significant and long-lasting pressure to reduce costs will, for many shops, result in the nearly certain deferral of non-discretionary expenses.
If that sounds too much like a consulting mouthful, in PlainSpeak it means putting off preventive maintenance and dodging new releases, even though the consequence will be to spend much more in the future to catch up.
That’s the worst. The best: Superficially attractive ideas that don’t really work thrive during periods of prosperity. Hardship makes them go away.
