Resumen
The article focuses on a chasm between the computing world of academe and the computing world of industry. This is the story of a major software runaway project, the CS9O project. It happened at the Westpac Banking Corp. in Australia, where management wanted to leap forward from a collection of tired legacy systems to a new concept in banking application software development. The author presents views of Chris Craddock, member of CS90 project team on the project. It was an ambitious plan, and in the final analysis, a spectacularly failed one. People were tied up doing traditional IS things, so academics were hired to take on more freethinking projects. According to Craddock, new folks were interested in data modeling, artificial intelligence, and other trendy subjects, and none of them had ever worked on software projects or in banking. And yet they ended up with the task of rebuilding all of the bank's old software into the spanking new CS9O system. Early on, the IS people on the CS9O project were given in-house lectures on some of the new concepts to be used in the construction of the system.