IT Strategy: Corporate Interests Can Influence Architecture and Career Path ...

Ancedotal evidence illustrates the impact of external forces when enterprise architecture transformation is being considered. Those forces can impact the architecture and the career path of those involved. Who said enterprise architecture wasn't risky business? Ethan Butterfield reports on the status of Massachusetts' Enterprise Technical Reference Model. ...

... "Without mentioning Microsoft by name, John Weathersby, executive director of the Open Source Software Institute of Oxford, Miss., said powerful corporate interests used their leverage to aggressively fight the state’s initiative. It demonstrates the lengths to which some will go to try to slow the adoption of open standards within public-sector IT environments, he said. " ...

IT Strategy: Corporate Interests Can Influence Architecture and Career Path: Via GCN: Loss of advocate Quinn doesn’t slow down state’s effort ...