On Tue, 31 Aug 2010, Gilbert Wilson wrote: > Article here: > http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/08/hp-holds-navy-network-hostage/ > > I'm curious to know what LOPSAers think of the Danger Room article > about the Navy's relationship with HP. While I don't think it's a > great idea for the military to outsource it's network operations > (certainly not to the degree that the Navy has) the article's evidence > is piss-poor. The costs that they quote for average workstations, > security incident response, and services for spam filtering appear > completely reason to me for a network the size and complexity of the > Navy's (the second biggest in the world.... right behind the INTERNET!).
That's how outsourcing works, particularly today. None of the big outsourcing firms are in the business of providing good service, they are in the business of doing the least work possible for the most money they can bill. another example of a failure: http://www2.dir.state.tx.us/about/pressroom/Pages/NoticetoCureDCSContract.aspx http://www2.dir.state.tx.us/SiteCollectionDocuments/AboutDIR/PressReleases/Data%20Center%20Services%20Notice%20to%20Cure_07162010.pdf These projects are being run by business school graduates who have no intention of actually doing the work. These are the same people who will cut costs instead of improving efficiency. -- Matt It's not what I know that counts. It's what I can remember in time to use. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
