10 Long-established business IT

This chapter covers

  • Telemetry use in organizations that started with paper and ink
  • How adopting modern telemetry systems works in mature organizations
  • The role of mainframes in modern infrastructures

In this chapter, we cover a slightly different type of organization: one that started operating in the paper-and-ink era and later computerized before the IBM PC revolution. Organization in this case can mean governments, and some governments have been operating for centuries. Some companies in Europe have founding dates in the 1600s, which long predates the typewriter, much less any electronic computing devices. Computerizing your business operations in an era where the organization had a single computer, which ...

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