As a matter of curiosity, what sort of legal guarantees of stability, reliability, etc do off-the-shelf products such as MS Exchange, IIS, etc have? And what happens if they fail? How often do companies sue the software vendors when something goes wrong?
I wonder how your boss would react if you told him his personnel management system needed improving, or his accounting methods were wrong. One can assume that his reaction would be that he has X years training in management and that he's more qualified to do it than you are.
Yet, these same people will often make ill-informed decisions about what software to run within a company, even over the objections of the people who have to suffer it.
Of course, the manager's job it to manage, and that includes making decisions about what software should be used - but it would be nice if they paid a little more attention to the people who, after all, are employed for their expertise.
Not too long ago, I had the misfortune to be presented with a load of HTML and asked to put some dynamic content in it (list of items from a database, rather than static - that sort of thing). PHP has got to be the easiest way to insert code into the middle of existing HTML. It certainly worked for me, anyway.
What a treat. Is it just me or are viruses that affect e-mail seen as so much scarier since the user gets to see something, as opposed to other viruses that do damage and don't announce themselves.
I think it's seen as being an easy way evil hackers can get at your machine, especially as people (and the media) don't seem to realise that the user has to open the email - it doesn't happen automatically. And, as an automatic it-comes-from-cyberspace-to-take-over-your-machine virus sounds sufficiently scary, it gets lots of media coverage.
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As a matter of curiosity, what sort of legal guarantees of stability, reliability, etc do off-the-shelf products such as MS Exchange, IIS, etc have? And what happens if they fail? How often do companies sue the software vendors when something goes wrong?
I wonder how your boss would react if you told him his personnel management system needed improving, or his accounting methods were wrong. One can assume that his reaction would be that he has X years training in management and that he's more qualified to do it than you are.
Yet, these same people will often make ill-informed decisions about what software to run within a company, even over the objections of the people who have to suffer it.
Of course, the manager's job it to manage, and that includes making decisions about what software should be used - but it would be nice if they paid a little more attention to the people who, after all, are employed for their expertise.
Not too long ago, I had the misfortune to be presented with a load of HTML and asked to put some dynamic content in it (list of items from a database, rather than static - that sort of thing). PHP has got to be the easiest way to insert code into the middle of existing HTML. It certainly worked for me, anyway.
What a treat. Is it just me or are viruses that affect e-mail seen as so much scarier since the user gets to see something, as opposed to other viruses that do damage and don't announce themselves.
e virus sounds sufficiently scary, it gets lots of media coverage.
I think it's seen as being an easy way evil hackers can get at your machine, especially as people (and the media) don't seem to realise that the user has to open the email - it doesn't happen automatically. And, as an automatic it-comes-from-cyberspace-to-take-over-your-machin
But the number of "If you get an email that says 'I love you', DON'T OPEN IT!" messages are getting a bit annoying.