another nail ?

[Bill Campbell]

On Sat, Sep 06, 2003, burns wrote:
>On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 19:22, Collins Richey wrote:
>
>> The laughing point he makes is that the new, spiffy M$ Server will not
>> run existing M$ applications!!!  Why would anyone deal with a company
>> like this?
>
>Oh gawd, what a question. I've been asking myself this for years - and
>I'm in the business.
>
>Mostly I think it's because we now have a generation of IT managers who
>don't know anything else and don't want to adopt an environment that
>will reveal that.

One has to consider that there's a huge industry dependent on cleaning up
after Microsoft failures.  Whether it's McAffee and Norton, or the armies
of MCSEs who have learned the three ``R'' of Windows, reboot, reboot,
reinstall.  Remember too that IT manager's compensation is related to the
number of droids they have tending the Windows boxen.

Bill
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