Yeah, I used to try to convince them till I was blue in the face. I
finally went back to my little lab and shut up when I realized I was
getting nowhere. Thankfully I currently work in Academia / Research
where opensource is welcomed and M$ has no real foothold.
nb
On Sep 21, 2004, at 11:54 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Russell Fulton writes:
On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 09:37, Nick Buraglio wrote:
They also said that "in large enterprise there is a need to have a
responsible party" for software and hardware.
My stock answer to this argument is "And when did you last get any
satisfactory redress from a software company whose products were
defective or simply did not work?" followed by "How often have you had
problems?".
You know what the problem is, the executive staff want some one,
anyone,
to hang the blame on, they aren't expecting anything ACTUALLY be done
about problems, they just want a target for the lawsuits, should the
need arise.
I was fortunate in that I work for a small company, I'm the IT "team",
the CEO knows me well, and thus trusted me to manage a solution that
I know was low cost and effective. 2 years of trouble free and royalty
free/license free LAN protection later speaks for itself.
