Part of this, too, is IT fighting to keep its comfort-level. The IT support and O&M folks I deal with are afraid of anything not from Microsoft, since so much is. They blame any problem on the non-M$ product in a mix of 99% M$ products and mostly dread Linux or UNIX, which they seldom see. I don't see personal hostility, though, and work easily with them. They will always answer my M$ questions quickly, plainly and clearly. The network security folks seem to be in over their heads, just struggling to get by, constantly adding more products and network restrictions.
Thank you, Mark Snyder -----Original Message----- When we describe actual IT horrors they call it "anecdotal" and dismiss it. When we show survey results they make fun of "statistics." I would say the bad guys are in deep, deep denial. They are severely damaging their organizations and want to continue to do so. I was at a client earlier this week and saw it happening once more. IT aggressively dug in, clinging to the wrong answers. Telling the money-making departments that they have to dance to IT's tune and it is just too bad if it damages their productivity. Thanks for the link. I'm spreading it around in the hope that it does some good. It is hard to push back against IT. They snow top management with technical-sounding mumbo jumbo that is mostly bull shit and non-technical managers are flummoxed. Perhaps this will help break through. ************************************************************************ * ==> 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/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
