On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Chappell, Simon P wrote: > If only it were that simple. Some of us get WAS handed down to us from a > being so far up the corporate ladder that it still has frost on it. This > same breather of rarified air, then also decides that once you're using > WAS, you should naturally use WSAD for your IDE. Oh ... and they're > going to lock down workstations, so that you can't install free stuff on > there to use instead.
This is where patience comes in handy. If you're very lucky, and if there's any hope at all for your corporation, somebody in the chain is going to read enough about "open source saves money" to want to be the one to be seen as the money saving guy. And there's your opportunity to volunteer. I recently found an email I sent in June 99 that said my team (created in mid98) should consider the use of more open source, up to and including the app server. It never really took off, although I did develop a reputation as the local zealot. Late last year a boss's boss wondered aloud, "If I'm charged with saving this department money, am I missing something by not trying Tomcat?" and there ya go, I was all over it. One of the tricks is *not* to keep saying "Our current environment sucks." because then you sound whiny. Its when you have a legit argument to make that people are more likely to listen. Do you have a laptop? Put Tomcat on that, do some work from home, and when people begin to realize that you're outstripping your coworkers in productivity say very nonchalantly that you're doing it all on your personal installation of Tomcat. That, in turn, might get other developers to do it as well, which in turn might get your boss to put more pressure on the big guys upstairs to bless it. Duane > > Welcome to Corporate America. Please leave your innovation at home, it will not be >required at the office. > > >Mark > > <snip> > > Simon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
