I think you're right in that a significant majority of those decisions are made for political rather than technical reasons. Hence our discussion on this thread.
Still, look on the bright side, there will be a Senior IT person (or persons) available imminently to go and start work on this new...
I've been responsible for a few mergers and acquisitions over the years and the company IT that don't get to keep their systems always think theirs are the superior ones (probably because over the years, the processes surrounding those systems have been finely tuned and changing systems means a...
This is the man who should be sacked, Carlos Abarca the CIO.
If he calls himself the Chief Information Ofiicer, then he should recognise the inherent risk involved in taking a 'big bang' approach to converting 1.3 billion customer records. Can you imagine the reaction from the team responsible...