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The Perils of Ramming Products Down IT's Throat
snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Paul Venezia takes issue with the all-too-familiar practice of management dictating IT solutions to admins savvy enough to know the fiat revolves around far inferior products, in this case Nissan North America's embracing of Microsoft's Hyper-V. 'Very rarely do unilateral decisions by CIOs make for solid IT infrastructures, and they are generally at odds with what the admins on the ground are communicating,' Venezia writes, noting that upper managers who succumb to vendor tricks face a far worse fate than an infrastructure based on inferior technology — one devoid of the kind of expertise necessary to make the best of their flawed purchasing decisions. 'If continuously faced with the specter of having to implement and support clearly inferior products due to baffling, uneducated management decisions, top-flight admins will simply head elsewhere.'"
'If continuously faced with the specter of having to implement and support clearly inferior products due to baffling, uneducated management decisions, top-flight admins will simply head elsewhere.'
Yeah, because the job market is just that good right now.
If you had read the entire article, you would find that they are going to run vmware inside the hyper-v instances, so everything will work out in the end.
The point? I think it's to lead you to their Zazzle store or make you buy Windows Sentinel after seeing their ads 6 times.
"Just put it on the cloud. I saw an IBM commercial last night that said this would solve all of our remote access problems."
Don't waste your time RTFA.
So I've been right all along!
Populus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur...
"Force shits upon Reason's back." - Poor Richard's Almanac
You need to have that printed on a T-shirt!
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The Magician of the Ivory Tower brought his latest invention for the master programmer to examine. The magician wheeled a large black box into the master's office while the master waited in silence.
"This is an integrated, distributed, general-purpose workstation," began the magician, "ergonomically designed with a proprietary operating system, sixth generation languages, and multiple state of the art user interfaces. It took my assistants several hundred man years to construct. Is it not amazing?"
The master raised his eyebrows slightly. "It is indeed amazing," he said.
"Corporate Headquarters has commanded," continued the magician, "that everyone use this workstation as a platform for new programs. Do you agree to this?"
"Certainly," replied the master, "I will have it transported to the data center immediately!" And the magician returned to his tower, well pleased.
Several days later, a novice wandered into the office of the master programmer and said, ``I cannot find the listing for my new program. Do you know where it might be?''
"Yes," replied the master, "the listings are stacked on the platform in the data center."
-- The Tao of Programming
Now fully functional junk can be shoved down their throats.
Once when I was leaving a job (because my family was moving) I had plenty of lead time to give notice, and, among other things, I was asked to draft the job description for my replacement. One of the things that I put in that was, "never leave the boss alone with a salesman." My boss chuckled at this, but somehow that bit did get cut from the final version.
Prime numbers are exactly what Alan Greenspan says they are -S. Minsky
Those reasons are exactly why we have helpful magazines, like Inflight, catering to the needs of the busy executive. Plainly written articles about the technological marvels that help drive great success stories, pithy cartoons filled with pointed humour, and puzzles designed to help unwind the harried mind.
Executives are the real grunts of this world, tirelessly pounding away with little reward or merit, to help ensure good jobs and healthy profits for everyone. Maybe Mr Moore will make a movie about them...
Yes, this is /., where I've been signing my posts for about a decade.
That's depressing.
"Except for herpes. That shit follows you home."
... wait, what?