Brett Lorenzen wrote:
>
> On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Frank Lee wrote:
>
> > Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > No surprise there. I'd say that attempting to deploy NT for
> > > any kind of mission-critical (oh, *man*, did I just use a buzzword?!)
> > > application is grounds for charges of professional incompetence and
> > > negligence. It amazes me that people are still trying to use NT
> > > for *anything*, but I guess there are always sheep following
> > > the marketeers instead of technical excellence (in the 80's, it
> > > was DEC; in the 70's, it was IBM).
Brett wrote:
> On the personal chuckle side, I toured a shop in DC last week where they
> produce daily newsletter-like publications for the congressional crowd.
> In the meeting with the bosses present, the techs were oddly quiet when i
> asked technical "what-if" questions, as I was clearly trying to determine
> the platforms they used so I could see how'd they'd mesh with our own.
> Later in the week, on a tour of the facilities with the boss gone, they
> were much more open . . . . the reason: the boss had paid for and
> thought
> he was running 20 or so NT boxes. He was instead running one NT box at
> the gateway (so the trail looked good on outgoing stuff), and 19 Alpha's
> with Redhat 5.1 :) They even had redhat Xfree86 desktop themes
> installed on the all the Win95 boxes, so even Windows looked somewhat
> like Linux and no one would see the differing windows implementations as
> they looked around the lab.
>
> It's out there ;)
This is great, Brett!!!
I know there are a lot of UNIX heads at Boeing -- but this is the first
I've heard of internal use of Linux.... but there is a /lot/ of Apache.
But to show you insanity --here's a company that is losing $ and is
looking to cut costs (including IS costs) ... and instead of letting us
use Apache as our web server, we had to try to get NES configured (try
is the operative word as it never worked because the techs didn't know
what they were doing). I mean, I'm glad it was NES and not MSIIS, but
really....
Kathy
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