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In article <1992Nov17.111656@is.morgan.com> 
mpiet@is.morgan.com (Mark Pietrasanta) writes:
>How do we IS'ers
>maintain our role (or any role) as the business units start to
>welcome the new peer philosophy?  Especially if they embrace
>Microsoft's solutions, which will mean they can support and
>develop with minimal man-hours and without IS?

A rose by any other name ...

I always laugh when I see someone claim that client/server, PC's/
peer-peer etc. systems can be supported and developed without IS.

Now I would tend to agree that traditional IS groups may have
trouble with this but certainly the skills required to design,
install, support, etc a complex heterogeneous LAN environment 
are the same skills required to run a large central computer center.
The details change, but the concepts are much the same.

In fact in some ways is harder to administer to the needs of a 
distributed PC based environment.  Just think about making reliable
backups for all those PCs.

What needs to happen is that the IS group must change its structure
and the services it offers so that the smaller groups within your
organization can rely on you to continue to manage their systems.
Why should each of these smaller groups being hiring (or drafting)
PC and network experts?  Usually they take what they can get from
there existing staff instead of hiring a skilled/trained person.
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Gary Wright                                                 ...!uunet!hsi!wright
3M Health Information Systems                                     wright@hsi.com