Saints and servers

Saints: You'll probably never know just how much I value your friendship and to know that you are out there.

Servers: Yes I think that techies like the multiplicity of servers. It keeps them in a job and reflects the single threaded not integrated ways of our minds. Business people on the other hand would in an ideal world, just want one big server, those are the types that the recent superbowl ads were aimed at. But they live in a world where they know that if they have at least two suppliers they can play those suppliers off against eachother for a better deal, so the businessman mandates "two servers at least". The rest is SOA loosely coupled history.

I saw this "thing", this mass of spaghetti called "the customers IT environment" grow upwards and outwards from the early 90's onwards. There were idiots involved a plenty. They came out with things like distributed client server computing and CORBA.

In those days each of these pathetic little PC's could only run one business function. So they had loads of them all network connected. Now in actual fact, because of advances in technology, these things are fast enough to have one or two in some central place and have thin clients everywhere else.

We'll be back to that model before we shuffle off of this mortal coil I hope.