"Give a small boy a hammer, and everything he sees needs to be nailed down."

Mike





At 03:35 PM 8/10/2005, you wrote:
>Although there are individuals within the IT community who are an exception
>to Michael's observation, my experience indicates that there is a
>substantial bias that IT staff have for IT-based solutions.
>
>Douglas P. Allen, CRM, CDIA+
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>-----Original Message-----
>Michael's earlier posting
>-------------------------
>
>A long time ago, I learned that IT is a belief system, as are science
>and religion, and what they "believe" ("everything that comes out of
>a computer is inherently superior to what comes from anything else" )
>does not have to be true in any sense that an ordinary person would
>accept.  The IT mangers as still the High Priests as they were in the
>mainframe days (a request for service was responded to as either
>"that can't be done" or "we can't get to you until next year"). The
>more things change, the more they remain the same.
>
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