On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 17:56 -0800, Stewart Stremler wrote: > begin quoting Randall Shimizu as of Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 04:02:21PM -0800: > [...] > > Well stupid seems like a oversimplification to me. There is a lot of > > IS people who don't realize the full ramifications of let's say > > Excheange which requires AD and then IIS for web access. They then > > discover that IE is required and which has then opened their > > environment to a bunch of viruses and worms. > > IS people who didn't do the *minimum* research required before > adopting software? > > Home users I can understand... they don't have the time or resources > to do more than a cursory investigation. But corporate users? When > even a *minimal* level of research would have revealed these things? > The political facts are that decisions about what software will be used are usually made by non-technical people for a variety of non-technical reasons, some of which may unjustified, and some of which are open to manipulation by 'market forces'. A technical review is often not done.
This is true in most businesses, and one need not look far for the the proof - the proliferation of vendor propaganda vehicles thinly disguised as 'trade press', in the massive marketing budgets of these software companies, and in the people in the customer businesses who are targeted for this marketing. Sadly, this is a much louder and more persuasive voice than those calling billy bathgates and his gang of marauding thieves out. -Tom O'Toole -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
