Mr. Tech, I've worked for companies with 3 employees to 130k employees. I've seen managers and CxO's focused different things at every level. I've seen small companies which were visionary in the tech spending and technology implementations and fortune 500 companies who had IT shops so bad I wouldn't piss on them when they burst into flames (and they will).
There is no large company utopia of unlimited resources, one could rephrase your question and wonder where small companies come from in thinking that large organizations have unlimited resources to throw at problems and that their issues are unique to them because they are small fish. When I worked for $vbc I put in 4 requests for an enterprise AV solution ($65k) and had it turned down all four times. Only when they finally got hammered by a virus did they come to me and direct me to implement a solution to prevent it from happening again. Sure sometimes people are forced into suboptimal situations. I know of one large credit organization which allows PST files on network shares, but that doesn't make it a good idea. I for one and happy when someone warns me it will hurt to hit myself in the head with an axe before I try it. If you really want to get into an in depth discussion of budget, resource and user management I'll send you my consulting rate. But as I see it your arguments against improvements in IT process management are currently a bit weak. BTW, Exchange standard has a 16GB limit BTW, not an 18GB limit. > -----Original Message----- > From: tech [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 2:08 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: PST Files on a network share > > Are the disks on your file server cheaper than the disks in your > Exchange server? > ---- > > It is cheaper to own standard edition of Exchange than Enterprise, > standard has an 18gb limit. > > Some companies have a freeze on upgrading, so what do you suggest to > administrators that do not work in the Utopia of a large corporation > with resources. Most users claim not to have the time or feel their > mail is too important to delete. Yes including the Amazon special > offers. > > Most small companies do not care about working the right way in the long > run, they want to know what is the cheapest way in the short term. They > might not be around next year. My feelings are that with that attitude > no wonder, but many of us work for those companies and have a boss that > is only looking at today and keeping his job. > > When you guys reply to these messages I just wonder whether you know who > the audience on this list are? From the dizzy heights of Compaq it may > seem odd that admins keep making the same mistakes but many admins > propose the correct solution only to actually do what is approved three > of four declines later. > > Nathan _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
