Say it with me: *Technology can be complex and fragile...* -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Alex Eckelberry < [email protected]> wrote: > Somewhat related, but IBM is feeling pain today as well: > > > http://blogs.siliconvalley.com/gmsv/2009/10/air-new-zealand-boss-lands-hard-on-ibm.html > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven Peck [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 12:34 PM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Re: A poke in the eye for cloud computing? > > Any company can have gaps, especially subsidiaries. > > While I was on site at a rather large unnamed chip manufacturing > company (many years ago) they lost the PDC (NT3.51 or NT4 long ago). > So they promoted the BDC. It went boom and keeled over and died. > They went to restore from backups..... It turned out not to be a > good week for some folks. They also decided that 1 PDC and 1 BDC was > not perhaps the best ratio for a resource domain of over 20,000 > objects in the future. > > The management did turn this into a 'learning opportunity' for the > site. No one was fired (the management believed they had just paid > for the learning experience of that mistake so might as well keep 'em) > though I believe those responsible had wished for a quick death > instead of being the 'living example' for the next two months. > > Steven > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
