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The Times They Are a-Changin
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I came to technology through the back door — as a finance person who quickly learned that access to clean, secure data is everything. That led me deeper: into information security, global systems, and eventually customer-facing technology at an international level. The question I keep asking is simple: does this give a company the agility to innovate and improve its bottom line?
It is worth remembering that OpenVMS dates from the 1980s and COBOL still underpins a large share of the world’s financial transactions — yet their customer-facing interfaces run on modern languages. Legacy and innovation coexist whether we like it or not.
Open source produces tremendous agility, but its implementation is only as effective as the people behind it. And for a CIO today the considerations are layered: cost, speed, and security as immediate concerns — longevity, stability, and adaptability as strategic ones. In practice that means navigating a full pipeline from planning and building through testing, compliance, deployment, and maintenance. Keeping abreast of all of that is why strong IT leadership matters more than ever. These posts explore that question — sometimes technically, sometimes not.
