I know it is...right down to the particular individual. I just happen to think that the thought process is broken in this instance. Ever since Bill Gates announced he was stepping back, it seems that Microsoft is having some trouble deciding "who" they should be, so they are trying to be everything to everyone. History has shown that that philosophy invariably ends up with you being nothing to no one.
-----Original Message----- From: Rod Trent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 3:29 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spiceworks 3.0 Released It's a mandate coming from the top down. -----Original Message----- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 4:11 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spiceworks 3.0 Released Fancy eco-talk for "Offshore your IT group to a dam-centric Microsoft DC near you". ;-) We're seeing no uptake on this foolishness in the SMB market. Perhaps they can make a go of it in the enterprise though. -----Original Message----- From: Rod Trent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 2:58 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spiceworks 3.0 Released Tough to fight since MS is promoting that doing so helps companies 'go green' by offloading unnecessary electricity and carbons. Because its being touted as such, particularly to the gov't agencies, there's no turning back. -----Original Message----- From: Tim Vander Kooi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 3:53 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spiceworks 3.0 Released And those of us on the "inside" are fighting them tooth and nail on it. :-) -----Original Message----- From: Rod Trent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 2:46 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Spiceworks 3.0 Released It’s a give and take thing. Spiceworks has always been that way. You just have to figure out whether or not you trust their security stream. In the future, you'll actually see more companies doing this. Microsoft is in deep for SaaS functionality for all of their products. They are working on "Live" versions of things like ConfigMgr and OpsMgr now. -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 3:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: re: Spiceworks 3.0 Released Is it just me, or does the Spiceworks TOS and the fact that they send data back to their parent server make this seem to be a really BAD idea to be running on your network? ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
