A proud Archie Bunker!

I felt proud about being backward and simple, after reading an article in Network World. As stated by Dennis Drogseth in CMDB in the NOC? Is it time yet?, I belong to a collective group called the Archie Bunkers. ('hold outs for a past era when things were presumably “simpler."') I join that great luminary, Albert Einstein, who said: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.""
Dennis misses the point. Besides his numbers being manure, he misinterprets being cold shouldered by the protagonists, who having been in the business since 1875, saw him coming. He had a set of preconceived ideas and he was going to paint his numbers to fit. And on the scale of poor process, being a long weekend cowboy is really a better proposition than going titsup in the middle of the day. My suggestion to Dennis is that he learn from the Archie Bunkers, instead of trying to teach.

If the CMDB is a system, then the best example of a CMDB is located at the Manned Space Center in Houston. The cog of that CMDB was Mission Control. If IT is able to model a CMDB to the same specifications as the Manned Space Center, then there would be progress. Don't knock the NOC! It is the Mission Control of IT and the main cog of any CMDB and in this vein Adam Gaffin provides a modern example.