On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 03:26:17PM -0700, Tim Uckun wrote: > > Well I thought I answered this question. Because Microsoft claims that you > don't need them. They promise that their servers are easy to set up and > maintain by "normal people". When your CIO goes to shop around for a > product and makes his cost analysis he does not add the cost of the > sysadmin to the NT column. Microsoft told him that it was not needed and > that it's a useless expense. I suppose CIO could be blamed for actually > believing what MS says but let's face it most people don't realize that an > MS executive will get fired if they don't lie to ten people by noon. there is a word to describe this: fraud. > In a nutshell. The CIO bought a product and used it as advertised. It's > really not the fault of the CIO that the product when used as advertised is > faulty. The irresponsibility rests with MS who advertises stable, secure > and high performance operating systems which don't need sysadmins to run. this is called `false advertising' and last i checked it was illegal in the United States. then again after all of these years i think ill bring up another timeless quote: "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me" -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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