• David.Poole - Tuesday, April 24, 2018 2:06 AM

    The problem comes when managing the realisation comes that their job has become maintaining and developing the systems they originally built for their own use.  They or their managers decide that enough is enough and that the systems should become part of the portfolio of systems that have to be looked after by IT.  

    I think the clever progressive ones should realise that their job is now or may soon be dominated by domain specific software and to a certain extent that is the job  - adapt and start hiring DBAs and developers / or work completely in partnership with IT departments if you don't have a market offering or want to be at the cutting edge- or wait for SalesForce / Purple Flag / Xero or one of an ever increasing number of web enabled applications to do cover some of your remit and be forced to adapt their workflow.