From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 25 17:44:22 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 739F116A4CE for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:44:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp11.wanadoo.fr (smtp11.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DD1743D46 for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:44:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf1102.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 4A4601C000BE for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:44:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf1102.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 27F9F1C000BA for ; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:44:21 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050225174421163.27F9F1C000BA@mwinf1102.wanadoo.fr Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:44:20 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1229915242.20050225184420@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200502251603.j1PG3dr16076@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: from "Ted Mittelstaedt" at Feb 25, 2005 12:24:16 AM <200502251603.j1PG3dr16076@clunix.cl.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Is Yahoo! moving from FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:44:22 -0000 Jerry McAllister writes: > Unfortunately, it is sort of true. If someone chose something other > than IBM and something screwed up, the chooser would get wailed upon > for making a dumb choice. If then chose IBM and something screwed up > as it most often did, they could say, well that is just the way it > is in the computer field. It ain't my fault. Then IBM is just > grinning and rubbing their hands at all the additional stuff they will > then get to sell to fix up their own screwups. > Well, that same odor seems to come on those winds from the northwest > as well. If you are a middle manager, you don't have to justify paying > scads of money to buy an MS "solution" and any screwups are just the way > life is. But your neck is on the line if you buy anything else - even if > it is free. You have to justify it first and defend it every day > regardless of how much better it might perform. So, managers cave. > They want to keep their salaries and get their bosses off their backs. It's a bit more complex than that. Companies like IBM and Microsoft will assist managers in justifying their respective software or hardware solutions. The manager is not alone in arguing in favor of these solutions. If the manager chooses something like open source, or any unsupported solution, he's on his own, and often he loses. -- Anthony