Recently, I was speaking with two business owners who were complaining about the lack of quality in technology guys. Their biggest beef was that the tech guys only wanted to spend money and never could fix problems. They label techies (us) as spenders. They further went on complaining that it is easy to spend other peoples money.
As I talked to them I soon discovered they were running the entire business off of win98 and terminal emulators to a AS400. Thier architecture was at least 6 yrs old.
As I began to explain the Microsoft hardware applications layer, HAL, and its benefit to stablizing thier operations they would cut me short stating that they were confused and dazed only seeing I was spending more money.
It was once again plainfully apparent that business owners fall severely short of understanding technology. Moreover, technology guys bare the weight of this shortcoming as the owners simply let them go and seek the next guy who is filled with false hope of success.
In a world today that requires a higher degree of mental agility and stronger technical backgrounds the principals are far too slow to come around.
