On 4/21/07, mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Again, I keep wondering where you meet these guys? Are you loitering around best buy and figure the geeksquad guys are IT managers? I've met many IT managers, and their staff, never have I met these caricatures you describe.
Tom is pretty harsh, but the points he make show up pretty commonly. I work with several IT managers who are very conscientious and extremely well qualified technically. Yet they end up trapping themselves into nasty corners. Like migrating to a huge Microsoft environment - Exchange, Windows desktops, SharePoint, Office, IE, etc. If you lead them carefully, they will admit that things don't work the way they would like - in fact, the products Microsoft delivers are incredibly frustrating. But they buy into the Microsoft mantra - easier to hire people familiar with Microsoft, current staff skills, just copying other large companies, etc. In fact, two in particular I know of would love to have a standards-based environment, with lots more open source products that would be easier to maintain. But they would have to work extra hard to find the right support people, those motivated to work with the open source community, etc. And they would have to work hard to convince upper management. So the cost to ramp up would be higher, though the result would be hugely cheaper and easier to maintain and improve. But try proposing paying the IT people more, bringing in those who care about open source, and having ways to outsource some of the support. Maybe it could be done, but ... So, the honest and capable ones know they are stuck in a tough place, and are very frustrated. And, of course, there are plenty of the not-very-competent types out there, that is for sure. -- John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
