God I love these guys! Oreilly wrote something I was wanting to write for a long time. Something that happens to be a part of me. A rebel. An onconventional approach. The grey goat! The speedy ship!
Looking at the questions he asks makes me wonder.
Do corporations really need to spend money and productivity on introducing another Battlestar Galactica operating system (Vista) from the Microsoft franchise - one so complicated that it can't quite seem to get out of the shop?
Will PC users be measurably better off after the expense and disruption of introducing the next MS Office release?
Should businesses now pay Microsoft for virus protection services, effectively rewarding them for delivering products without immune systems?
Must IT promote yet another frenzied re-implementation of business process calcifying SAP?
Do corporate IT departments really need all those outrageously expensive EMC disk arrays, when disk storage is now so cheap that everything computer readable can be triple mirrored on commodity drives for very short money?
Why not buy standard networking equipment from reputable commodity providers like Netgear, instead of Cisco - as much as 80 per cent saving is likely to be the only noticeable difference to the business. And at the same time, why not move network traffic from dedicated network links, to a VPN?
We ought to ask these questions a lot often.
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