[tophat9000]

Yes i do know this.. the point is if the overall SYSTEM design is done right (not IT system but the business operation) it should be capable of functioning independently...and even manually with pencil and paper.. you have to have this redundancy built in to function as a business... if the overall operation was designed properly it should be able to function even manually

give me a good reason why the individual operations need to be tied to corporate to the point it cannot function without corporate that's idiotic....

Starbucks cards?...you can't continue to operate unless you have access to Starbucks cards?..that stupid...

credit cards?..One credit card systems don't have to be going to go through the central office and to you can still design a system that can function without credit cards.

IT is automation of what should be the manual process it should be aid anytime you design an IT system that you can no longer function or operate without it you have a bad design.

Business can continue in a degraded function if the IT system is down .....

Business should not come to a complete stop..and lose sales and money... because that the point of a business to service the customer in to continue to make money whether their automated or not automated

A business that cannot function at least degraded manner when the IT system is down is as stupid as a person that can not add of make change with out a calculator or cash register.

And that come from 35 years of it system service.. In business nothing should stop production even a down IT system..that's called building in redundancy

[9thLife]

if the overall SYSTEM design is done right

It's been said that 'they don't make things like they used to'.

I think one of the most foreboding circumstances in all of human history is the development of technology coinciding with the precipitous decline in competence and morals.

But that is the entire point: man outwits himself.