Phase IV was fine. Then along came Phase V DECnet. Every DECUS conference and every DEC presentation seemed to be dominated by Phase V DECnet - and nobody understood what it was for or why it was good. Most people didn't bother with it and once we had to co-exist with unix boxes that spoke IP we were screwed. In went Multinet, which was expensive and over time everything went IP
And with all the BS about DEC->Compaq->HP, and getting harder and harder to find anyone that knew anything about VMS or even courses to train peoplem, we just gave up.
I was for a long time an uber-geek, and decided that the only way to get things working right was to get into the management side. So I moved to a job managing lots of geeks.
I proved very quickly that geek != manager.
So I got training. Courses and an MBA.
Result: management trained geek != manager.
So now I do consulting/contracting and manage nobody.
Some of us are never going to have the right personality, no matter what the training.
The 'bugger' ad was banned here? What are you talking about. The original 'bugger' ad was made in NZ and was extremely popular. The second Oz based one just wasn't as good.
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Phase IV was fine. Then along came Phase V DECnet. Every DECUS conference and every DEC presentation seemed to be dominated by Phase V DECnet - and nobody understood what it was for or why it was good. Most people didn't bother with it and once we had to co-exist with unix boxes that spoke IP we were screwed. In went Multinet, which was expensive and over time everything went IP
And with all the BS about DEC->Compaq->HP, and getting harder and harder to find anyone that knew anything about VMS or even courses to train peoplem, we just gave up.
I was for a long time an uber-geek, and decided that the only way to get things working right was to get into the management side. So I moved to a job managing lots of geeks.
I proved very quickly that geek != manager.
So I got training. Courses and an MBA.
Result: management trained geek != manager.
So now I do consulting/contracting and manage nobody.
Some of us are never going to have the right personality, no matter what the training.
You can get more if you dissolve them in the beer first.
The 'bugger' ad was banned here? What are you talking about. The original 'bugger' ad was made in NZ and was extremely popular. The second Oz based one just wasn't as good.