Sadly, I think it works kinda like the Investment Industry does... More than half of investment managers perform worse than the market, because they are making "safe" purchases with their clients' money. In this case, a "safe" purchase means the purchase of some big, well-known, stodgy old company like GM, as opposed to some upstart, young whippersnapper company like Ben & Jerry's. Sadly, the choice is a safe one for *the manager* though often not much good for the client. Who is gonna raise a stink with their money manager for investing in Genial Motors? But he better not dare go out on a limb with some Little Company no one's ever heard of... or, at least, that's what he thinks they think.
I believe IT - more often than not - works the same way. Some IT manager buys some interesting off-brand software like, say, Nisus Writer - they could really get busted for it. Who's gonna dish out big criticism of an IT manager when she chooses well-known (if not well-understood) Microsoft(R) BloatWare 2000... even if it's a boat-anchor? In either case, it's *way* easier to "cover ass" and just stick with the old standard. Besides if he buys BSDUnix server software instead of Microsoft(R), he will actually have to learn to edit config files - or some other supposedly distasteful [read challenging] skill - to get things working right. So along comes the Blaster worm, and all the Microsoft(R) admins have to do is say, "Why are you giving *me* a hard time? It's happening to *everybody*." Meanwhile, the BSDUnix admin, because his OS has Actual Security, is relaxing on a beach someplace. Go figure... On or about 9/30/03 1:21 PM chris ever-so-carefully typed: >>Ah, yes... >>May I pile on here? >[snip] > >ROFLMAO!!!!! > >BWAAAHAAAHAAHAAA... <sniff>... hehehehe.... <sniff>....hooo.... > >That was just freaking GREAT!!! > > >Oh, and I still wonder... what the hell is wrong with all the admins out >there that they continue to use such harmful products when there are good >viable alternatives. > >I mean, if I owned a blender, and ever time I turned it on it shocked me, >I wouldn't sit there going "Gee, this blender sucks, but I have no choice >but to use it"... no, I would chuck it in the trash, and go buy a new one >by some other company, and stop being put thru torture on a daily basis >just to get my blending done. > >Am I the ONLY SysOp out there that knows there are other email clients >for Windows BESIDES Outlook? > >-chris ><http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
