On 8/16/05, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > nevermind "vast experience in the real world," i make no such claim. > people like yourself obviously believe that making a solution is > great, regardless of ease of use. and it is. and i'm not into a > pissing contest. i'm just speaking from experience. > > and i claim no "superiority" for stating that ease-of-use is more > important than a neat hack. but your point that it's an arbitrary > requirement is specious. > > and when i said "scale" i didn't mean the solution, i meant YOU. YOU > DON'T SCALE. that's why the "freebie i'll administer and fix it myself > all the time" solution won't work once you get past more than a few > boxes. right now, from your point of view, you think my argument is > ridiculous, because "linux is fun!" let's see you say that same > assertion in ten years, when you're up to *here* with linux.
There's also the issue of maintenance - maybe for now maintaining can be done by yourself, but it's not going to be you who'd maintain that system forever. At some point in time one must consider contingency issues such as how would be the system administered easily and smoothly should you get ran over by a bus (well, hopefully not as horrible as that... but the idea's there). Also, not all industries have administering their IT tools as their priorities or their main line of work. We're not anymore living in the age that IT is a necessary evil - if it costs more to maintain in the long run without yielding any significant cost-productivity benefits to one's main industry (which I think should be the goal rather than TCO or ROI) then it's not worth deploying at all. -- Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
