Marriott IT Exec Shares Network Horror Story

alphadogg writes "Neil Schubert is only partly kidding when he calls Marriott International's move toward a converged network a horror story. 'I'm here to tell you a terrifying tale of network design, support and administration,' he said at an IT conference in Boston, referring to a major bandwidth crunch caused by guests wielding Slingboxes and other network devices that overran the hotel chain's outdated network. 'One of the things we've learned about our guest networks is we have one of the most foreign, hostile environments known to man in the network administration world ... I can take 100,000 customers a night on that infrastructure and we actually have less incidents of harm than we do on our corporate back-office infrastructure.'"

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Re:Where's the horror?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, if you RTFA, on page 3 it describes that the infrastructure problems were brought on by their use of using Linux instead of Windows.

So now the poor guy has a nightmares where Steve Ballmer shows up on his doorstep dressed in a monkey suit while throwing chairs and screaming "Windows! Windows! Windows!" and commands him to read every TCO paper ever published my Microsoft as his punishment for making such a bad choice.

That certainly qualifies as "horror" in my book.