From: "Randy H" 

What goes for Coprorate IT Leadership today is truly breathtaking- so much
sh*t spewed forth make breathing a challenge.

That is, when you're not laughing.....

"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
news:pqv9evcuuco6cult48ivhiqoouilf2p28e{at}4ax.com...
>
> 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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