Comments on: IBM and the History of Autonomics http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/ibm-and-the-history-of-autonomics/ JOHNMWILLIS BLOG Wed, 02 Jun 2010 23:53:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mark Cathcart http://www.johnmwillis.com/ibm/ibm-and-the-history-of-autonomics/comment-page-1/#comment-48851 Mark Cathcart Sat, 28 Feb 2009 23:18:34 +0000 http://www.johnmwillis.com/cloud-computing/ibm-and-the-history-of-autonomics/#comment-48851 John, IBM employees way too many bright people in marketing, product management and other ancillary roles to the actual product development teams. This is the reason the requirements and marketing run way ahead for any serious initiatives at IBM and why stuff most disappears before the poor old development teams have had a chance to deliver it. Autonomic, On Demand, cloud all suffer from the same fate as do many others. If IBM doesn't have the technology at day-1 then the bright people start talking it up to gain market traction, fifteen months later when the first release, which isn't even half what the bright people promised is ready, there's a crisis, and they either kill it, move it, or fold it into the next big thing( on demand > SOA). Otherwise the bright people get bored and move on and start talking about something else. John, IBM employees way too many bright people in marketing, product management and other ancillary roles to the actual product development teams. This is the reason the requirements and marketing run way ahead for any serious initiatives at IBM and why stuff most disappears before the poor old development teams have had a chance to deliver it. Autonomic, On Demand, cloud all suffer from the same fate as do many others.

If IBM doesn’t have the technology at day-1 then the bright people start talking it up to gain market traction, fifteen months later when the first release, which isn’t even half what the bright people promised is ready, there’s a crisis, and they either kill it, move it, or fold it into the next big thing( on demand > SOA). Otherwise the bright people get bored and move on and start talking about something else.

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