VMWare workstation is a better product currently, GSX is a bit old in the tooth, development seems to happen on the workstation level.
ESX 3 is going to be where it is at, if you are big business the cost is really irrelivant and made up easily from hardware and thus datacenter savings. Tell me a better way to do full disaster recovery on Microsoft Exchange (I don't like it as much as you) than to use VMotion between sites.
And consider you will be buying some big EMC storage gear to VMotion between I'm sure EMC can give GSX away as it is about as useful as workstation in the big picture.
Firstly, is the HR department involved in this? Why is the CIO addressing a Human Resourcing issue? Any properly trained HR person can show you how to manage this.
I work for a very similar company, An airline that makes 90% of its revenue via the web servers I administer, on the web binaries I build and harden.
All I can say is if you want to be treated like a professional, you are in the wrong industry.
It is not an IT company, it is not about IT and if you screw up they will just outsource you. If you were an engineer or biscuit chucker (cabin crew) you would be seen as a valuable asset. Our CEO never walks down to the IT department and says you guys are doing a good job, but he will address the pilots personally when they join and address any niggling issue the cabin crew feel is important, personally.
Which sucks considering the IT department has to work extremly hard to bridge the technology gap left by the airline industry professionals that see IT as an expense, and yet can't respect the effort put in to making IT actually work for them. And particularly with such a young company with young executives that have never experienced life without email and internet, and rely on computer programs 100% to do their jobs.
And thats what happens when you buy the cheapest software and pay 10-20% less salary, you get someone that relies on the IT department for EVERYTHING.
Give up and get a job for an IT company that will treat you like a professional. You will thank yourself, and probably earn more, enough to pay for your own airfares.
In relation to career development and promotion, everybody cant be promoted, I find a lot of younger staff expect to move ahead like they deserve it. I hate to break this to people but your well being is not your employers responsiblity. Especially when you are a professional. If you do deserve to move upwards, I'm sure you'll be able to get a better position somewhere else. What if your team of 8 has 8 excellent people that all deserve a promotion? You can't promote all 8, its not a win-win situation.
But you do deserve regular performance reviews and renumeration, from someone with experence and in a position to reward you. Any HR department can tell you how to do this.
The only part I'm keen to see is if M$ release office for it, and how long before there will be support for OSX binaries in linux allowing me to run outlook native.
I manage email for a medium sized enterprise and recently I had to kick and scream to get the blacklists made optional to my service.
Even the large companies that are only offering spam and virus filtering solutions (im not going to name names) have no grasp on the damage they do when they block real business emails with militant blacklists.
I should mention that I work for a service orientated business, and if you do not reply to emails it is bad service. I also must excerise a duty of care to do my best to stop any unsolicited pornographic images reaching staff.
Always happy to tout 99% spam is blocked, you never hear 3% false positives. The hardest part of making a spam solution is ensuring real emails get delivered.
MAPS and the like should wake up and realise the email itself is not more important than the business that is conducted on it.
I made the decision to continue using Apache 1.3 simply because of the higher number of security related releases on the 2.0 branch.
Having worked for software engineering companies I can appriciate the pride and dedication to products that developers have, every developer would love you to run his latest and greatest code.
Unfortuantly on the other side of the dice when I am administering servers I appriciate stability and longer cycles between upgrades or security advisories.
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VMWare workstation is a better product currently, GSX is a bit old in the tooth, development seems to happen on the workstation level.
ESX 3 is going to be where it is at, if you are big business the cost is really irrelivant and made up easily from hardware and thus datacenter savings. Tell me a better way to do full disaster recovery on Microsoft Exchange (I don't like it as much as you) than to use VMotion between sites.
And consider you will be buying some big EMC storage gear to VMotion between I'm sure EMC can give GSX away as it is about as useful as workstation in the big picture.
Firstly, is the HR department involved in this? Why is the CIO addressing a Human Resourcing issue? Any properly trained HR person can show you how to manage this.
I work for a very similar company, An airline that makes 90% of its revenue via the web servers I administer, on the web binaries I build and harden.
All I can say is if you want to be treated like a professional, you are in the wrong industry.
It is not an IT company, it is not about IT and if you screw up they will just outsource you. If you were an engineer or biscuit chucker (cabin crew) you would be seen as a valuable asset. Our CEO never walks down to the IT department and says you guys are doing a good job, but he will address the pilots personally when they join and address any niggling issue the cabin crew feel is important, personally.
Which sucks considering the IT department has to work extremly hard to bridge the technology gap left by the airline industry professionals that see IT as an expense, and yet can't respect the effort put in to making IT actually work for them. And particularly with such a young company with young executives that have never experienced life without email and internet, and rely on computer programs 100% to do their jobs.
And thats what happens when you buy the cheapest software and pay 10-20% less salary, you get someone that relies on the IT department for EVERYTHING.
Give up and get a job for an IT company that will treat you like a professional. You will thank yourself, and probably earn more, enough to pay for your own airfares.
In relation to career development and promotion, everybody cant be promoted, I find a lot of younger staff expect to move ahead like they deserve it. I hate to break this to people but your well being is not your employers responsiblity. Especially when you are a professional. If you do deserve to move upwards, I'm sure you'll be able to get a better position somewhere else. What if your team of 8 has 8 excellent people that all deserve a promotion? You can't promote all 8, its not a win-win situation.
But you do deserve regular performance reviews and renumeration, from someone with experence and in a position to reward you. Any HR department can tell you how to do this.
Move on. One day I might even take my own advice.
The only part I'm keen to see is if M$ release office for it, and how long before there will be support for OSX binaries in linux allowing me to run outlook native.
I manage email for a medium sized enterprise and recently I had to kick and scream to get the blacklists made optional to my service.
Even the large companies that are only offering spam and virus filtering solutions (im not going to name names) have no grasp on the damage they do when they block real business emails with militant blacklists.
I should mention that I work for a service orientated business, and if you do not reply to emails it is bad service. I also must excerise a duty of care to do my best to stop any unsolicited pornographic images reaching staff.
Always happy to tout 99% spam is blocked, you never hear 3% false positives. The hardest part of making a spam solution is ensuring real emails get delivered.
MAPS and the like should wake up and realise the email itself is not more important than the business that is conducted on it.
I made the decision to continue using Apache 1.3 simply because of the higher number of security related releases on the 2.0 branch.
Having worked for software engineering companies I can appriciate the pride and dedication to products that developers have, every developer would love you to run his latest and greatest code.
Unfortuantly on the other side of the dice when I am administering servers I appriciate stability and longer cycles between upgrades or security advisories.