[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
also, in my experience, managers (pointy-head or not) are rarely overly
caught up by the technical details. they just want such-and-such a problem to
go away.
they usually don't really care how you do it, especially if it works well
and they never ever have to cut short a trip to the golf course because of it.
I don't share your luck and I think few do, although this forum may be
more fortunate in that respect. I am heading to Cape Town tomorrow
morning to install MS Exchange in what will probably still be a NetBSD
shop for a year or so. Me, when I have no idea what Exchange actually
look like!
This is what comes of bucking the trend successfully. IT management
there believe it will cost them less to entrust the installation to me
than to bring in an MCSE (by whatever the current label may be) that
will install herself permanently behind the Exchange keyboard at a
formidable monthly salary. What will in fact happen, sadly, is that
I'll be blamed for all the things that will go wrong with MS Exchange,
irrespective of the real responsibility, more things will go wrong
than usual because I'll insist in front-ending Exchange with the
existing Sendmail installation, modified in haste to deliver to
Exchange instead of the local mailboxes. All sorts of extremely fancy
features of Exchange will be used and the reliability of the existing
system will soon will be forgotten.
Reminds me of last weekend - i got a paniced call from one of the sales
execs - one with a clue - to get him OFF the exchange server because of
the problems. Now he is happy to have his mail forwarded to a linux
virtserver
where he uses procmail and pine. I am ever so greatfull i am not responsible
for the exchange. I warned them against it and they went with a hosted
solution
which gives people 150MB of mailbox space.... About the volume i dispose of
after a long weekend.
Good Luck...
-- Marina Brown
