** Reply to message from "Paul G. Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 03 May 2008 06:20:46 -0700
> In my opinion, it's ITs job to provide the tools and environment needed > for the users (especially engineers and the like) to do their jobs. It's > corporates job to give IT the latitude to provide the resources so that > IT can provide that environment. To do otherwise shows a fundamental > disconnect at the core of the company, and such a disconnect sets off > warning sirens in my head. that kind of practice went out the window in the early 90s when Microsoft flooded the press with lies about what its software could do and dumped tons of marketing brochures in managements mail boxes. Management started dictating what tools the engineers/developers were to use. And the sad thing is that I too have seen many projects have Microsoft software dictated as THE toolset, the projects failed for technical reasons and nobody loses their job. It is a perpetuation of incompetence with no corrective element built in so businesses don't do it again. Management has the balls to dictate the Microsoft tools be does not have the balls to take responsibility for poor judgment. I too have left a few jobs when the technology was dictated down based on non-technical reasons. All the fun and excitement goes out the Windows. Doug -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
