>>I was consulting to a Fortune 100 firm during the early to late 80's and watched the walls come tumbling down. Once microcomputers came into the corporation, end-users wanted them to "do things". At first, IT resisted supporting or even acknowledging microcomputers....or tried to apply the old mainframe rules to them. Business units would resist and a lot of stealth programming went on where power-users became novice programmers or outsiders were brought in (like yours truly) as consultants to write business specific software for these new machines.
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>My favorite comment when I was looking to get out of the mainframe world, also in the early 80s, and into PCs, was: "But you're going to have to deal with people!!". Consisely summed up why the wall surrounded IS back then.
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Perry;

The computer group has had many names over the last 20 years or so. You just reminded me that our Corporate Computer Department was MIS. I called it "Miss Information Service" because they always missed reality as far as I was concerned.

When I began this job a little over a year ago we were IS - Information Service - now we are IT - Information Technology. Rather humorous when a profession cannot agree what to call itself. Then again it is hard to hit a moving target!

Tom