The ABC of the ESB

IT people must be some of the cleverest and expensive in the world. Or at least that the theory. And yet we are constantly falling for the emperors new clothes in the form of next-big-things whilst discarding what we have, even the bits of what we have that work. The answer lies in understanding the history of how we got to where we got to and, unfortunately, accepting that some things are hard work and we have to do it.