In the small business arena we'll hire someone when we can't handle the
project or there is no IT staff and a lot of the IT is done remotely.
The average SBS var/vap runs around 20 to 25 small business networks.
I seriously doubt your firm runs a SBS box. :-)
You said that LUA can't be done in small firms where there is little or
no onsite IT help.. and I'm saying that's irrelevant.. for many small
firms the IT is outsourced.
And define small.. Microsoft's small ..or the real small business small?
It's called educating the user of the computer... the Linux and Mac
industry have smarter users is the real problem of Windows.
Devin Ganger wrote:
Oh, I agree that it needs to get done and that LUA works (and that
vendors are getting better about it...but I also note some vendors are
only getting better about it after not dealing with XP SP2 properly, or
after word was released that Vista will be supporting LUA by default).
I just think that LUA isn't (and can't be) the total answer for the
industry as a whole, looking at all segments, as long as the default OS
install is setting us up for default admin. It's a major component, but
not the whole answer.
If you've gotten the impression I thought LUA was bad or didn't know how
to do it, I apologize; that's not the case.
One comment you did make that I wanted to respond directly to:
At Wednesday, April 05, 2006 3:59 PM:, Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz -
SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote:
Remember down here in the home/small biz arena there is one tool that
we don't have that you big guys have...
I have to laugh at this. In addition to my full-time duties with 3Sharp,
I'm also our sysadmin. We've got the IT infrastructure of a company
many, many times our size -- we almost have more servers than we do
employees! -- but because we're small, I'm pretty much all we've got. We
occasionally get some part-time help, or one of the other employees (or
partners) helps out for a specific project, but the thought of hiring
another company to set up our infrastructure just makes me giggle.
And it's really *not* pretty when I giggle. Trust me.
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