30 Aug
2008
30 Aug
'08
3:13 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Duell" <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 5:11 PM
Subject: Re: Free Linux and OpenOffice - even if your email address doesn't
You're joking, right? Who the heck in THIS day and age is giving you
schematics?We run HP, IBM, Sun, Cisco, and Dell hardware, and I hardly see
ANY of them giving out schematics.
Maybe in a 7-person company, but let's be realistic. Company I work for has
well over 15,000 employees, 5000+ workstations and laptops, over 600
servers, all spread across 6 worldwide offices + 5 call centers, and you're
talking about schematics?
That's just nuts - we'd need a full-time person just to manage the
schematics, much less actually repairing stuff...
In this day in age, it's "call the vendor," because everything we have
comes
with 3-5 year on-site warranties, and/or maintenance and support contracts.
Tony
Second, I work for a multi-billion dollar
company, and there is NO WAY on
this earth any minutely-responsible IT
department is going to run ANYTHING unsupported in a production
environment,
especially with SOX and other
requirements.
And there is no way I am going to use anything I can't support myself.
Which means I won't depend on any hardware I don't have full schematics
for, I won't depend on any software I don't have the source code for. I
don;t require it to be 'open', I don't mind if the schematics and source
are not freely copyable and that I have to pay to get, say, a technical
manaual containing said schematics.
-tony