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Can't disagree, but...Can't disagree, but...Posted Jan 25, 2003 17:32 UTC (Sat) by sphealey (guest, #1028)Parent article: Commentary: The way of Linux (News.com) As a business and technology manager, I can't disagree with Forrester's recommendations, but I have to wonder: do they also recommend that the same degree of skepticism be directed toward's Microsoft's products (or IBM's for that matter)? Should cheerleaders as well as gurus be kept from the data center? During the late 1990s thousands of sites replaced perfectly functional Netware-based networks with Microsoft Networking-based networks. I have never seen a solid business justification for those replacements. Should skepticism be applied comprehensively or selectively? sPh
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Can't disagree, but... Posted Jan 25, 2003 22:45 UTC (Sat) by havoc (guest, #2261) [Link] Good point, but that leads directly into a bit of a muddle. Can you be both skeptical and agressive at the same time?I see the need for skepticism, but if a company, including it's IT dept. aren't agressive, failure looms.
Can't disagree, but... Posted Jan 27, 2003 0:34 UTC (Mon) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link] Being generally aggressive is not actually a good idea. You have to beaggressive in areas where there are currently problems that need to be solved. You should always use proven technology, provided that it actually works (which you'd think would be part of it being "proven", but...) and that it does what you want done. This tends to leave a substantial area for being aggressive; if there is any real progress, there will be some technologies that you will want to invest in because they do things which were formerly simply impossible. Many businesses, honestly, shouldn't have invested in any computer technology in the past ten years, simply because ten years ago, they could run their business on the technology they had, and they don't have any needs they didn't have then. I was pleased to see that my auto repair place seems to be using a system that old for keeping track of the business (of course, there's new equipment in use in actually repairing the cars).
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