From: Mike '/m' 


Yup.  I f I hadn't experienced it firsthand, I would have never believed it.

 /m

On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 22:51:46 -0500, "Randy H"
 wrote:

>IOW, management by magazine article reading.
>
>
>"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>news:g0h6ev843hvncu1ennm8fi5gfvhb1auofe{at}4ax.com...
>> On Sun, 8 Jun 2003 10:06:49 -0400, "Geo."
 wrote:
>>
>> >"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
>> >news:pff6evo2okdb1cgrn4gode7a7schhqdg2q{at}4ax.com...
>> >
>> >> Snodgrass's group proposed replacing the company's
Microsoft Exchange
>> >> servers with a Linux-based solution that would have all the same
>> >> collaboration features and have a cost savings of 70 percent to 80
>> >> percent. However, for other reasons that Snodgrass
wouldn't discuss,
>the
>> >> company's executives decided to stick with Exchange but
outsource the
>> >> management of the groupware to save money.
>> >
>> >It's a great solution but we didn't go for it.
>> >Why didn't you go for it?
>> >I can't tell you.
>> >
>> >What kind of crap is this?
>>
>> It is the crap that some corporations call upper-level management
>> decisions.  It is the crap that some corporations call
"political" not
>> "technological" solutions.
>>
>> It could be as simple as there being a single high-level manager whose
>> responsibility includes the Exchange servers, but not the other Windows
>> servers; and that individual refuses to consider anything but Microsoft.
>>
>> Now, before you scoff at this, I will say that I've seen this exact thing
>> happen in one large corp I worked at, but instead of Linux replacing
>> Windows, it was Windows replacing IBM mainframe applications.
>>
>> Welcome to the corporate world.
>>
>>  /m
>>
>>
>>
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