On Wed, 1 Nov 2000, Tom Clark wrote:
> Sure, I'd be happy to elaborate. If they really go through governments so
> quickly, then I assume that there is a great deal of personnel turnover at
> all levels. In such a setting, it would be good to have your IT systems
> built on open and accessible standards. New people can come in and
> make your systems work long after the people who planned and built them
> have left town and stopped returning your phone calls.
Interesting point, but consider this:
In my experience, environments based on open standards are more likely to
be customized by the people running the environment, because in general
it's much easier to do so. A lot of administrative tasks are scripted on
Unix machines, in order to automate them. Often on Windows (for example
of a proprietary system), it's more difficult to do this, due to the
closed nature of Windows and lack of built-in utilities. So you often
will find that the administration staff has obtained some other (often
well-known) product to do those tasks for them.
In some ways, it's thought to be more beneficial, because the tool sets
are the same. A new administrator in a Unix environment often has to
learn tools which were custom-built by the admin staff, potentially making
it harder to learn.
--
We sometimes catch a window, a glimpse of what's beyond
Was it just imagination stringing us along?
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