*clap*clap*clap* I couldn't sound more condescending if I tried.
Bravo sir! On Mon, Mar 08, 2010 at 07:39:25AM -0500, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 10:16:10PM -0600, Marco Peereboom wrote: > > You forgot the pyramid! > > > > And the Venn diagram... > > > > On Sun, Mar 07, 2010 at 09:19:19PM -0500, Steve Shockley wrote: > > > On 3/5/2010 7:42 AM, Nick Holland wrote: > > >> And yes, this is just the tip of the iceberg with vmware quality > > >> issues, but that one was really, really easy to understand. > > > > > > So, you're saying VMware *is* "enterprise-ready", then? Like Blackberry > > > Enterprise Server, CA Message Manager, or any number of products that > > > appear in a "quadrant". > > VMware is definately "Enterprise Ready". Like a spider is "Fly Ready". > > Take Microsoft Windows, add hardware that individual projects can > afford, mix in developers who can no longer conceive of their > applications having to share or run without owning the machine and > you get separate sets of servers for every dinky bright idea a > management intern can come up with. > > Cool for an organization with 2 management interns and 2 projects > a decade. Bad for "Enterprise" class situations with dozens of the > former and hundreds of the later per year. What do you do when your > building fills up and the river is completely turned to steam? > > You switch to 'pretend' servers and try to keep the merry-go-round > turning. And the spider sucks your juices out. > > Of course the bonus is you now have room for all the Project Managers > needed to coordinate the management interns. And thus commplete the > movement from Information Technology to Information Management. > > .... Ken