redeploying server farms

[Michael Perelman]

Not just companies, but public entities also.  Our university just
signed up for a $60 million contract with PeopleSoft, which seems to get
sued by almost all of its customers for screwing up.  Tim Bousquet of
the excellent ChicoExaminer is preparing an expose on it.


> Peter K wrote:
>
> >
> >Just a week or so ago the Los Angeles Times ran an article about
> >companies who bought into the idea of supply-chain software and
> >ended up eating it. They were going to streamline their operations.
> >The only problem was, the stuff didn't come in shrink-wrapped
> >packages like the stuff from Egghead and install as easily as a CD
> >copy of some computer game on one's personal computer.  They forgot
> >that the data in their particular industries required that the
> >software be extensively "configured" and programmed (and the
> >programming being unique, and highly layered, it tends to be
> >bug-prone in ways that software used by hundreds of thousands of
> >consumers isn't).
> >
> >Supposedly half of the companies underestimated cost and deployment
> >time by at least half.
>

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu