Systems Department Number: 001 Date: 08 01 2002 Author: Intag Source: Intag 
The Total Systems Approach

Here we depict our philosophy of design, a kind of two basic step sequencing: Architectural - Engineering, focused as a Total Systems Approach. In the top we have the "monad", symbol of the eternal Unity of any system. It is the classic Far East representation of the Ying Yang Unity of Tao but it's also a symbol of logical mathematical unity thinking in our Western culture as the Leibnitz's monad. As the background is black we couldn't see well the contour of the black region but we could imagine it as the complement of the yellow region.

In IT and communications disciplines the hardware represents the harder parts of a diversity, the parts more mechanic, even the "machine" parts in any man-machine relation, being the software, by contraposition, the softer parts, the parts more akin to the man in any man-machine relation, and by extension, the more akin to brain as well. However, as in the monad, in any hardware approach there is always the seed of something of software and also the reverse is true.

We use the color spectrum of the visible light to represent the information talent we provide: from the hardest HHH (red) through the softest SSS (violet) and all them correlated with the activities of our actual Departments: our Computers and Networking Department, for instance, make extensive use of HHH and HH talents, and on the other extreme, our I-Solutions Departments makes use of H (routers), HS-SH (Communication Protocols), S(HTML), SS(Java), SSS(Web Semantics), where we mention only one example within each pair of brackets.

Notwithstanding, being coherent with the Unity principle, in each activity we also make use and issue considerations about any possible and/or potential use of complementary talents, emphasizing this by coloring each activity with the complementary color.


The Total Systems Approach goes a little farther


As in the visible light spectrum we have the infrared and ultraviolet colors, in a Total Systems approach we have to ponder to go a little farther in both extremes. As any human system should be created to solve Human needs, in some extent, the ultraviolet analogy should be to think about the final and global usefulness of systems for humans. Going to the other extreme, to the infrared analogy, we are tempted to think for example about the machine parts as failing somehow. Going a little farther than red we may consider the use of systems like for instance CORBA



CORBA integrates machines from diverse vendors, with sizes ranging from mainframes through minis and desktops to hand-helds and embedded systems. One of its most important uses is in servers that must handle large number of clients, at high hit rates, with high reliability.


Index