Microsoft (Score 1)

I'm not a rabidly anti-Microsoft person, but my background is more in Novell and Unix. My "problem" with work right now is that we're moving towards being exclusively Microsoft for our server estate and for most of our applications. What's worse is that nobody in senior management - in the IT department or the business - seems too concerned that we're putting all our eggs in one basket. By the end of this year we'll have "downgraded" the database server for the key busines applications we run from 64bit Solaris to 32bit Windows. Some of the higher up managers think that this is progress!!

It's not that I don't think that Microsoft can't support the business, it's the dreadful malaise that "Microsoft can solve everything" that really depresses you. We're supposed to be cutting around 5% of the costs in our business this year, but we're happy to shell out huge amounts of money on Sharepoint. There apparently isn't "any other software out there that can support the business in the same way as Sharepoint". And they're probably right, I've never worked with a piece of software that seems to need so much underlying hardware to run and support it! It's bloatware at it's worst - it's why I still find it hard to like anything about Microsoft.

I suppose it could be worse. When our new Chief Exec started work last year we were told we were moving to SAP!! I should be grateful for small mercies.