Network Computing's 7th Annual Reader Survey 22
Thomas LaSusa writes "In this year's reader survey, Network Computing Magazine editors invited IT managers to vent about the tech challenges they face every day and how they wish vendors would address these problems. Read the unvarnished truth about what your peers are thinking." From the article: "This isn't the Top 10 worst vendor list, though. The largest tech companies tend to get the blame because they're the easy targets. Individual experiences with a particular company will vary widely; for every person who blasted Dell or Symantec for poor equipment or lousy service, someone else sang their praises. Instead, we find it more worthwhile to identify key areas where technology vendors as a whole aren't living up to their own boilerplate marketing. Some of the vendors contacted for their reactions to this story explained that today's enterprise networks are bewilderingly complex and run a vast number of OSs, applications and protocols. They all defined customer support as a top priority, but recognized that problems can't be solved by first-level support. Whether you consume or sell technology products, read on for an unvarnished look at what 755 IT decision-makers want — and don't want. You might just come away with new strategies for dealing with your vendors or serving your customers."
daily wtf (Score:2)
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More like interesting code snippets have dried up. There aren't very many of them before it starts getting repetitive or boring. Either that or everyone's starting to take breaks... But they do run code ones from time to time, for all the little bits that would never make it otherwise (like popup popourri).
But I suspect the really big
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hrm (Score:1)
Behold! (Score:3, Funny)
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In colonial America, you never had hung or stalled juries in the court system. This was because the jury members were locked in a room without food or water until they came to a decision.
I have been pushing for this to occur during internal committee meetings, but we haven't had consensus about it yet.
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My first question would be why do you make us waste so much of both of our times when yo
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Sanctimony (Score:4, Insightful)
When it comes to open source, IT doesn't mind if the open source community is holier than thou if they can save them time, money, interoperability pain and more.
28% of surveyed agreed that major open source projects are run by sanctimonious elitists. Were the other 72% of the respondents the actual sanctimonious elitists?
Or are thanks in order for the 72% of major open source projects not run by sanctimonious elitists? I for one would like to thank the FileZilla [sourceforge.net] team for building something better than the commercial competitor WS_FTP. And I would like to thank the sourceforge team for providing a repository of plenty of good software not sanctimoniously delivered.
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At least with free software you get something worthwhile out of it. And if it comes to that you can probably find a support forum or mailing list or some kind of commercial support if the project is large enough.
nothing's changed since last century (Score:2, Insightful)
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not that you were going to anyway... (Score:2)
If you read Dilbert, you've read this. Salesmen over-promise, support under-delivers, blah blah blah. Oh, and if you have systems from more than one vendor, each vendor will blame the other.
Seriously, Scott Adams from 1999 called. He wants his clichés back.
Wait a second... (Score:2)