Once upon a time in the IT Land there was a village called Olis. Everybody in Olis was looking for a place called IT nirvana... ok first let me define IT nirvana. IT Nirvana is a place where there is IT but No IT, where there is perfect interoperability and agility, where providing a technology upgrade path also preserves the investment in legacy systems and simplifies deployment of new systems..... it is a place where there are no borders, everybody is free of vendors, where developers, analysts, managers are biological clones so anybody can be replaced by anybody, where time, cost and schedule are independent and so on and so forth.
The people in Olis had looked far and wide and not found this dream place. They felt very lonely in IT land. Many times they tried to break from this isolation and get to IT Nirvana but without any success.
Their Village was so built so complex that people could not even find their own homes some time. It was like a maze and they could not build any trails to outside their land and do business.
Lots of wizards have come and gone in the village and everyone of them promised the people of Olis the elusive IT Nirvana where Olis is the center of IT Land and all trails are marked and interconnected.
Every wizard had his own magic method and they promised if the villagers followed their ways and did what the wizards wanted them to do they can have IT Nirvana. The people in Olis tried all of the methods of the wizards and still could not break loose.They were desperate, if Olis did not find the dream place, it may perish.
One day a new wizard came to the village, his name was AOS, and he said he has this new magic that can get Olis to IT Niravana.
All of them very initally doubtful of AOS but still they wanted to believe in him as they desperately needed IT Nirvana.
Reluctantly they agreed to let AOS do his magic. Since they were desperate, they wanted to start learning the wizards magic fast... but the wizard warned them that the path ahead is long and arduous. He told them that his methods take a while to learn and he also needed the old and forgotten elders of the village has his apprentices.
The young villagers did not like this, they thought the old ones are slow and lazy but AOS said that his magic is from the ancient masters with new power and as such he needed apprentices from the village who knew the methods of the ancient masters. AOS also told them that his magic is not free and will cost the village 100 bushels of corn.
Now that was a problem, the villagers got together and discussed about the ways to get the 100 bushels, they knew for sure that the village headman would not easily give them the 100 bushels, so they devised a plan...
Everybody in Olis went to the head man and told him that the wizard and his methods are so powerful that when Olis attains IT Nirvana he, the village head will have everything he wanted in the village, every villager will work his land, his neighbors land and any other land he needs them. They also told that when Olis reaches IT Nirvana he can sell Corn bushels to all of the IT land as he will have trails leading everywhere and make a lot of wealth, plus they told the village head that if he pays the wizard then the wizard will get him new Headgear that is flashy and he will also get a new magic oracle that will tell him about all things happening in the village right inside his own house.
The villagers made AOS do his smoke screen pyro techniques showing IT Nirvana, which convinced the headman to give AOS his 100 bushels.
AOS started his magic, Slowly and steadily new trails started appearing out of nowhere connecting Olis to other places in IT Land, but those trails were not smooth enough to walk. It took lot of effort to walk on those paths and many in Olis were frustrated by it. The village headman was getting impatient, he wanted his riches, fancy head gear and his own private oracle NOW
Many of the people in Olis decided that AOS's magic is no good, his ancient ways were boring and more work and they need a new wizard. As time went by people were getting tired of AOS's's methods, some started commenting that he may be a fake wizard, some others said he is just teaching them what they already knew and there was nothing new in his magic, but some believed in AOS and continued to do what he wanted from them.
The village headman was getting impatient and villagers were panicking , they wanted to stop AOS and get some new wizard.
Now the question before them is do they have ONE.???
