A self reply, as I think my knee-jerk vitriol wound up obscuring the point I 
was trying to make.

On Jul 1, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Corey Quinn <[email protected]> wrote:
> The picture he paints of the uninvolved sysadmin who forms the "Department of 
> No" is *exactly* the kind of admins I've known in my career who recommend 
> CFengine for deployment. 
> 
> The folks who "get it," the folks who are more disciplined in their approach, 
> who learned to adapt? They're all deploying Chef/Puppet/Salt/Ansible and run 
> screaming from CFengine. I'm not saying it's a causal relationship, but the 
> correlation is definitely there.

If I can turn the simmering rage down to about a 4, the real problem I've seen 
around this is a number of admins who knew CF2 very well, and didn't want to 
learn about 3-- so despite the former's deprecation, still insist upon 
deploying it. This is precisely the kind of unadaptable mindset that results in 
the type of admin that was referenced in Mr. Burgess's comments.

What I'm trying to convey more clearly is that it's not the tool itself, it's 
what goes into the tool selection.

Thanks to Mark Bergman for helping me to clarify what I was going for.

-- Corey
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