From: "Randy H" 

IOW, management by magazine article reading.


"Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
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> 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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