I must say that “I don’t care” what others are going to do, all I know is that I am way more productive with my home setup (four 1920x screens) with complete control over my environment. As a consultant it also makes things much easier, companies like Suncorp waste a lot of money going through their desktop provisioning process when they won’t let contractors and consultants drop their machines on their network.
From a security point of view, it also encourages the IT department to be open in what they will support (extending the Internet into their environment) but being much more security conscious about sensitive systems. It might mean the end of the egg-shell defence. The whole who pays for it question is probably a separate one. Suncorp might be doing this to avoid paying for a laptop refresh, and possibly some licenses, but they need to be careful. For example, if you have a grad working there, and they are using Office Student edition to do work for Suncorp that could be a violation of the agreement. So the whole mechanics of software licensing is going to have to change as well. If I was a Microsoft Account Manager, or any other account manager I would be a little bit nervous because suddenly Suncorp doesn’t have as much buying power, which affects the ability to make one sale to heavily impacts quota. Their targets (if they are smart) are going to start to be built around applications, and server licenses, not the desktop. They should be lining up with vendors such as Dell and Lenovo to produce compelling offers inside Suncorp which include the hardware, os, and productivity suite. My 2c Regards Mitch Denny Readify | Chief Technology Officer Suite 408 Life.Lab Building | 198 Harbour Esplanade | Docklands | VIC 3008 | Australia M: +61 414 610 141 | E: mitch.de...@readify.net<mailto:mitch.de...@readify.net> | W: www.readify.net<http://www.readify.net/> The content of this e-mail, including any attachments is a confidential communication between Readify Pty Ltd and the intended addressee and is for the sole use of that intended addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any use, interference with, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorized and prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please contact the sender immediately and then delete the message and any attachment(s). From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Wednesday, 30 March 2011 8:42 AM To: ozDotNet Cc: David Kean Subject: Re: [OT] BYO Computer @ Suncorp On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:05 AM, David Kean <david.k...@microsoft.com<mailto:david.k...@microsoft.com>> wrote: Sounds like a justification for spending less money on work machines. I’m failing to see why this is a good thing. I'm with you. This is batshit crazy. Plus who the hell is going to bring their machine from home and join it to a domain or run VS.NET<http://VS.NET> through citrix all day. Pass. Work buying you an awesome machine and allowing you to take it home for some personal use is a benefit - but buggered if I'd be interested in the other way around. -- David Connors | da...@codify.com<mailto:da...@codify.com> | www.codify.com<http://www.codify.com> Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 189 363 V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact
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