Information Systems

Integrating the Organization ◾ 237

Ensuring that transactions have the ACID properties requires complex soware. It is

expensive to create and to purchase, and calls for extra hardware to achieve acceptable

performance. However, enterprise-level information system needs can’t be met without

it. Personal computers won’t do the job, no matter how many of them an organization is

willing to buy.

Where you t in: When you hear how much an enterprise information system costs, you should

understand that high cost is often a necessary consequence of high complexity. That doesn’t

mean you should accept any price without question, but you should be ...