The Excuses

  • The business is changing.

  • We have some hot new technology requiring resources.

  • Our company is downsizing; we need to restructure.

  • We have to separate the legacy environment from the other stuff because we want to sustain RAS.

The real issue is client/server computing. It is like nothing IT veterans or, for that matter, younger executives have ever come across. Yet they're not admitting it. How do you structure for something that has no boundaries or clear demarcations? We'll show you throughout this book.

What made us so smart? Why did we find the answers? Two reasons. First, our backgrounds helped. We were reared in a legacy mission-critical data center environment. We were also chartered with transitioning large legacy computing environments ...

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