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November 21, 2002
Lindon Utah: High Tech Heaven?
Well maybe not, but for a town of 6000 people, Lindon isn't doing too bad. A few weeks ago, someone from the local (read small) paper interviewed me about high tech in Lindon. Lindon is only about 4 blocks from the old Word Perfect campus in Orem. Consequently, many of my neighbors are ex-Wordperfect folks and have worked in high tech in various capacities. Lindon is home to businesses like Key Labs, Canopy Group, Center 7, Altiris, Lineo, Caldera (now called SCO), and Modus Media to name a few. Most (but not all) of these companies have one thing in common: Ray Noorda, the former Chairman and CEO of Novell.
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Road to the Future?
Last month, the IT Commission asked me to prepare a vision document and present it this month. What I came up with is something I entitled "Road to the Future" after a diagram that I built the paper around. The diagram came from the Dept. of Community and Family Services in Australia. I liked it because I thought it was indicative of many of the issues that we face as a state.
I had originally planned on gathering input from the ACIOs for the document, but it turned out that there wasn't time. A month is just not much time to put something like that together. The good news, depending on how you look at it, I guess, is that there's still plenty of opportunity to participate. The IT Commission accepted the vision document and asked that an enterprise architecture document be presented in April (the next time the ITC meets). That gives us 5 months to work on the enterprise architecture, something we've already decided to do, and have it ready for the ITC to look at. All aboard!