must stop
the company will continue to suffer from the inefficiencies born out of data sprawl
mergers and partial conversions combined with managers chasing new technologies
while simultaneously, planning to abandon everything that actually works
the company serves as a defacto beta testing ground for other companies
lately, they are going in every which way except the direction they spent 30-40 years building
to pursue all these new fronts while abandoning your foundational data is a plan for failure
leadership falsely believes it will save them so much money going 10 new directions instead of staying with what they have been building for decades and finishing up the legacy migrations to something stable
management cannot be ignorant enough to believe those who say that it all be replaced in just a few years
yet we continue to hire 'smarter than you' IT executives who claim the solution is to move to new and unproven technologies x y and z, while ignoring the realities of what exists (only years later when they get there, do they realize the obvious which is data in x y or z is worthless without the other 99%)
once we see everything stopped and return to just legacy + Oracle, there might be chance to salvage a future and complete something meaningful like moving out of legacy systems for the next 10 years
the house of cards that is lumen today might just collapse on its own
If they continue on the current course, the only option will be bankruptcy or an immediate return to sanity
meanwhile the contractors will milk the cash cow all the way till she is dead ,,, or sold off for pennies on the dollar
I truly don't want to see the company fail
But we are not on a trajectory that can succeed