Pretty poetic... The CF-Talk group tends to be the folks in the ditches.. A few of us own our own thing and do well, but no one I know of has 10k employees and all that jazz...
It seems pretty irresponsible to have issues like this worm... I know from having maintained environments that needed to support 100 difficult users with all of their different needs that securing an environment takes a strategy no matter what the platform... Saying you are too big or the problem is too complex just can't be allowed to cut it... Liability in my opinion is and has been the largest issue businesses face... Say we adopt the same big argument to hospitals.. Next thing you know your employee knows about those stress meds you have been taking... Thus HIPAA was created to neutralize the irresponsible... Similiarly, there should be a standards measure that anyone with a public facing resource should clearly be able to say they have made the best and most calculated base to ensure the reliability and security thereof.... If such were upheld/created, fending off lawsuits and government regulation as well as lost business would be more honest and easy... No one would listen if Boeing airplanes started falling out of the sky and the men on the line said oh we produce tons of them... No one would listen if their financial data were disclosed and they were defrauded... Protecting your enviroment should be a portion of identifiable time you spend or someone in your organization spends in an ongoing manner... If you don't have the luxury you will when something fatal happens... And remember to yell out the names of your bosses who told you to overlook it... Overlook it like the factory worker allowing EPA unapproved liquids and gases to sneak out of the plant when told to... -paris Paris Lundis Founder Areaindex, L.L.C. http://www.areaindex.com http://www.pubcrawler.com 412-292-3135 [finding the future in the past, passing the future in the present] [connecting people, places and things] -----Original Message----- From: S. Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 18:51:20 -0500 Subject: Re: Microsoft Bashing - Was: RE:SQL Worm > > This needs to go off to some other place. > > > > However, I wonder why people say this. > > It's VERY easy to arm chair quarterback. > > But not so easy to run a multi-billion > > dollar corporation with hundreds of > > thousands of employees, hundreds of > > products and being in virtually every > > part of the world. > > This is the epitome of arm-chair quarterbacking. > > What did our financials look like for last year? > ... blah blah... > > What are people buying? > ... blah blah... > > Take the money we made last year and make more of that stuff. > Yes Sir. > > But the presidents and executives and trustees of a multinational > conglomerate I think ultimately have little ability to control the > machine > -- they can only make decisions in such broad strokes as to > ultimately end > up being nearly superfluous themselves. Take the CEO of any given > multinational corp. away and someone else steps in and usually makes > roughly > the same decisions. Sure, there are semantic changes -- one guy's > more > popular with trustees a, b and c, and the other guy is more popular > with > trustees x, y and z, but that doesn't usually dramatically change his > ability to influence the board, etc... Of course, fraud and some > other less > than desireable actions can dramatically change an individual's > ability to > influence a company, re: Enron & MCI. But then these things likely > affect > the quality of their product very little and I doubt many individuals > earning well over 6 figures really care in particular about the > quality of > their company's product anyway. At 6 figures it would be very > difficult to > squander enough money to significantly affect your standard of > living. > > > At any rate.. Let's take this somewhere else.. > > It's not tech oriented around CF. > > Arm chair quarterbacking are we? > > > > s. isaac dealey 954-776-0046 > > new epoch http://www.turnkey.to > > lead architect, tapestry cms http://products.turnkey.to > > tapestry api is opensource http://www.turnkey.to/tapi > > certified advanced coldfusion 5 developer > http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=21816 > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
