2 Apr
2013
2 Apr
'13
9:43 a.m.
On 04/02/2013 12:13 PM, Jonathan Katz wrote:
On Apr 2, 2013, at 11:45 AM, R SMALLWOOD
<rodsmallwood52 at btinternet.com> wrote:
Damn suits. This is what happens when our society allows people who
are better suited to being late-shift fast food restaurant managers, or
perhaps just bank robbers, get into upper management.
Of course it's more common than not.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Does the phrase "planned obsolescence"
mean anything to anybody?
Don't get me started. Look at the upgrade chain for commercial Solaris these days.
What you can/can't run Solaris 10 on, Solaris 11 on, etc. But that's another
thread all on its own.
I'm an ex-HP/ArcSight guy who now does ArcSight consulting with a small firm, and we
have a lot of great customers. That said, some of those customers are using older (3-5
years old) appliance hardware which was sold by ArcSight (pre-HP.) The hardware works fine
and is sized appropriately for their needs, but HP won't support the latest software
upgrades on it, and those software upgrades are required to avoid a nasty XSS bug. So I
can't upgrade a keep a customer's system secure because they aren't running
the most recent ($$$) hardware. It doesn't help that the original hardware ArcSight
used for their appliances was Dell-based, and now being owned by HP it's kind of a
black eye for HP to keep supporting Dell-based HW.
Meanwhile I'm trying to be a good partner/VAR/trusted advisor to my customers, but
the vendor has totally put the squeeze on me. Yes, you really don't need new hardware
for your environment due to capacity issues, but you do if you want to ensure the product
you use for security monitoring is secure, you need to fork out $50k+.