[Dilbert56]

Interesting article. I'd add that the companies need to involve their own people, not just contractors. They also need to verify the skills. There are too many contractors who claim to have a skill and then read the manual the night before.

Worked on one project to move key applications off a mainframe. The replacement system would have been more flexible but required over a hundred servers to replace 1/3 of one mainframe LPAR. When management saw the cost, the whole project was cancelled. Ironically, the best replacement configuration turned out to be...a mainframe supporting virtual servers.

[Dilbert56]

And my first daughter’s birth announcements, in 1983, were sent out on punched cards.