Software Engineer
05-11-2000, 08:50 PM
So sorry....
Gee, I am sorry so many people got burned by ILOVEYOU, Melissa, and Microsoft.
Gee, I
am so sorry that uncle Bill is not going to fix his 'undocumented features.'
(We engineers
call them bugs, by-the-way.) I am so sorry that you spent thousands for
cr@p.
Microsoft Lemmings, hmm, I have a name for this now...Microsoft Lemmings.
Wait,
before you run your company off that cliff, maybe you ought to try some of
those other
products out there. I think you'll be pleasantly surpised by the number
of products that
are better than the best Microsoft products. Read on.
Advise...
For the manager of a company, here's some IT wisdom. If your IT staff says
that
Microsoft products are the best, fire them. If someone suggest another solution,
like a
Sun box or even a Linux box, listen to them. If you are installing a critical
system, by God,
do not let them talk you into a Windows solution. (If they do, give me a
call. I charge
$275.00 an hour plus expenses to help you with those problems you're going
to have.)
Your staff may tell you that Unix solutions are too complicated, but I advise
you that
administering a Unix box isn't rocket science, and you are paying your staff
too much.
Any reasonable system administrator should be able to pick it up quickly.
My situation...
In the company I work, we only use Windows for non-critical, end-user applications.
Our critical
servers are Sun boxes, and our non-critical servers are Linux (Linux is free
and reliable, so why not).
And, because of some proprietary software, we do have two NT boxes, which
as someone described
them, they're like "balancing a marbel on a bowling ball." The only boxes
that go down here other
than for hardware failures and upgrades are, you guessed it, the Microsoft
boxes. Outlook, well,
we don't use it...too many holes; therefore, we didn't pass the virus.
This comsumer message brought to you by...
Do you want to know who is giving this advice? I am a senior software engineer
with about years
of experience. I have an MCSE. I have coded for Windows NT/98/95, MS-Dos,
Unix (HP, AT&T,
SCO, Linux, and Sun). I have coded in Visual C++, Foxpro, Visual Basic,
Delphi, GCC, CC, Informix,
MySQL, Borland C++, dBase, Java, and a bunch more that is too long to mention.
I have also
been a Network Engineer, a Senior Hardware Technician, and System Administrator.
Gee, I am sorry so many people got burned by ILOVEYOU, Melissa, and Microsoft.
Gee, I
am so sorry that uncle Bill is not going to fix his 'undocumented features.'
(We engineers
call them bugs, by-the-way.) I am so sorry that you spent thousands for
cr@p.
Microsoft Lemmings, hmm, I have a name for this now...Microsoft Lemmings.
Wait,
before you run your company off that cliff, maybe you ought to try some of
those other
products out there. I think you'll be pleasantly surpised by the number
of products that
are better than the best Microsoft products. Read on.
Advise...
For the manager of a company, here's some IT wisdom. If your IT staff says
that
Microsoft products are the best, fire them. If someone suggest another solution,
like a
Sun box or even a Linux box, listen to them. If you are installing a critical
system, by God,
do not let them talk you into a Windows solution. (If they do, give me a
call. I charge
$275.00 an hour plus expenses to help you with those problems you're going
to have.)
Your staff may tell you that Unix solutions are too complicated, but I advise
you that
administering a Unix box isn't rocket science, and you are paying your staff
too much.
Any reasonable system administrator should be able to pick it up quickly.
My situation...
In the company I work, we only use Windows for non-critical, end-user applications.
Our critical
servers are Sun boxes, and our non-critical servers are Linux (Linux is free
and reliable, so why not).
And, because of some proprietary software, we do have two NT boxes, which
as someone described
them, they're like "balancing a marbel on a bowling ball." The only boxes
that go down here other
than for hardware failures and upgrades are, you guessed it, the Microsoft
boxes. Outlook, well,
we don't use it...too many holes; therefore, we didn't pass the virus.
This comsumer message brought to you by...
Do you want to know who is giving this advice? I am a senior software engineer
with about years
of experience. I have an MCSE. I have coded for Windows NT/98/95, MS-Dos,
Unix (HP, AT&T,
SCO, Linux, and Sun). I have coded in Visual C++, Foxpro, Visual Basic,
Delphi, GCC, CC, Informix,
MySQL, Borland C++, dBase, Java, and a bunch more that is too long to mention.
I have also
been a Network Engineer, a Senior Hardware Technician, and System Administrator.