I've had meetings with SGI marketing types who told me that the Challeng DM systems we had would not be able to run the newest OS (6.5). Two days later a SGI engineer told me he had installed 6.5 at AOL and Netscape on the same systems. I always trust those marketing guys (the same type of people who designed Windows9x/NT).
I guess laying off people is a sign of a company "dieing"?!!? Then IBM, BlueCross/BlueSheild, and 1000's of others must be "going out of business" also. (BlueCross/BlueSheild has been laying off people for 7 years now!)
Dropping Key Divisions? Pay attention, SGI didn't drop them they "spun them off", a little easy to manage that way.
Yes hotmail runs BSD/Apache, but MS bought it. It's most likly the code and MS IT managers should have seen the security problems and addressed them.
But this is also a problem with IT managment everywhere. Sys admins typically tell IT managers everything that needs to be done (backup, security, etc.), but IT managers are reacting to poor business practices of the marketing/sales people, and ignor problems util they happen.
I totally understand, the long hours, being under appreciated, under payed etc. I remember being young and thinking I could do it all. I've only got 9 years of experiance, but when I first started, I thought I could do it all and quickly, I tried to be "superman", provide really cool and useful apps, networks, etc. really fast. That way I would be "The Man". Unfortunatally, I learned the hard way. I ended up becoming overweight, mad and bitter. I've changed, I've admitted to myself I don't know everything, but I will learn and correct the problem. Probably the most important thing I've learned is how to handle management and politics. We as system admins./network techs/etc. have delievered the message that we can make it work fast and easy. We know there will be problems, from my experince I though IT managers knew this also and would let other managers in the company know. Oh, well. The same goes for the Windows problem. I remember thinking "...I could get more done if I didn't have to tell people how to use a program...", "...if they just had a mouse and a icon they could do it on their own..." know I long for the days of a Mainframe and terminals.
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I've had meetings with SGI marketing types who told me that the Challeng DM systems we had would not be able to run the newest OS (6.5). Two days later a SGI engineer told me he had installed 6.5 at AOL and Netscape on the same systems. I always trust those marketing guys (the same type of people who designed Windows9x/NT).
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I guess laying off people is a sign of a company "dieing"?!!? Then IBM, BlueCross/BlueSheild, and 1000's of others must be "going out of business" also. (BlueCross/BlueSheild has been laying off people for 7 years now!)
Dropping Key Divisions? Pay attention, SGI didn't drop them they "spun them off", a little easy to manage that way.
Yes hotmail runs BSD/Apache, but MS bought it. It's most likly the code and MS IT managers should have seen the security problems and addressed them.
But this is also a problem with IT managment everywhere. Sys admins typically tell IT managers everything that needs to be done (backup, security, etc.), but IT managers are reacting to poor business practices of the marketing/sales people, and ignor problems util they happen.
And the Ford Probe was gonna replace the Mustang
I totally understand, the long hours, being under appreciated, under payed etc. I remember being young and thinking I could do it all. I've only got 9 years of experiance, but when I first started, I thought I could do it all and quickly, I tried to be "superman", provide really cool and useful apps, networks, etc. really fast. That way I would be "The Man". Unfortunatally, I learned the hard way. I ended up becoming overweight, mad and bitter. I've changed, I've admitted to myself I don't know everything, but I will learn and correct the problem. Probably the most important thing I've learned is how to handle management and politics.
We as system admins./network techs/etc. have delievered the message that we can make it work fast and easy. We know there will be problems, from my experince I though IT managers knew this also and would let other managers in the company know. Oh, well. The same goes for the Windows problem. I remember thinking "...I could get more done if I didn't have to tell people how to use a program...", "...if they just had a mouse and a icon they could do it on their own..." know I long for the days of a Mainframe and terminals.
Just my $0.02