Why big Corporate/Enterprise IT departments Really Suck
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Here I was "sametime-ing"(yeah evil lotus I know) with the head of EU Desktop Team. Blah, blah, blah... we're going to upgrade to Weven(from XP) => "Yupy Finnally!" "No more XP!"(it's just too old nothing against it). That also implied having IE8 instead of IE6(yeap still there). We(local IT team) just managed to buy a new Server(for SQL). I had a local/inhouse app for tracking people(when they arrive, when they leve, holidays and stuff like that). So I thought why not port it to silverlight(learn something relatively new). After 5 week my silverlight project was ready(it's no biggie). After 6 weeks we get another "discusion" with the desktop team. Guess what?? 6 more month before the upgrade!!! Nice wright???
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Here I was "sametime-ing"(yeah evil lotus I know) with the head of EU Desktop Team. Blah, blah, blah... we're going to upgrade to Weven(from XP) => "Yupy Finnally!" "No more XP!"(it's just too old nothing against it). That also implied having IE8 instead of IE6(yeap still there). We(local IT team) just managed to buy a new Server(for SQL). I had a local/inhouse app for tracking people(when they arrive, when they leve, holidays and stuff like that). So I thought why not port it to silverlight(learn something relatively new). After 5 week my silverlight project was ready(it's no biggie). After 6 weeks we get another "discusion" with the desktop team. Guess what?? 6 more month before the upgrade!!! Nice wright???
Sounds about right. Once took me about a month to get a toaster oven in the lunch room. And it wasn't even a toaster oven. They got some heating product that was not quite a toaster oven.
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Sounds about right. Once took me about a month to get a toaster oven in the lunch room. And it wasn't even a toaster oven. They got some heating product that was not quite a toaster oven.
[^] BYO components. That's basically our IT departments policy. [edit: bad link]
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[^] BYO components. That's basically our IT departments policy. [edit: bad link]
Logan Black wrote:
BYO components.
Bought my toaster from Amazon yesterday with 1-day shipping. The tracking information shows it as delivered (about to leave work... will be bringing it in and setting it up tomorrow). :)
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[^] BYO components. That's basically our IT departments policy. [edit: bad link]
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I believe that is why they didn't want to let me bring my own toaster in the first place.
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I believe that is why they didn't want to let me bring my own toaster in the first place.
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I believe that is why they didn't want to let me bring my own toaster in the first place.
And possibly for a good reason[^]. I don't think your model is affected[^], however. In any case, go with the industry standard[^], and impress all your friends/co-workers/Japanese-girlfriends. [edit: blah]
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And possibly for a good reason[^]. I don't think your model is affected[^], however. In any case, go with the industry standard[^], and impress all your friends/co-workers/Japanese-girlfriends. [edit: blah]
:thumbsup: Hopefully my company is blocking the link to that first website. Wouldn't want them taking away my precious toaster. :rolleyes:
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Here I was "sametime-ing"(yeah evil lotus I know) with the head of EU Desktop Team. Blah, blah, blah... we're going to upgrade to Weven(from XP) => "Yupy Finnally!" "No more XP!"(it's just too old nothing against it). That also implied having IE8 instead of IE6(yeap still there). We(local IT team) just managed to buy a new Server(for SQL). I had a local/inhouse app for tracking people(when they arrive, when they leve, holidays and stuff like that). So I thought why not port it to silverlight(learn something relatively new). After 5 week my silverlight project was ready(it's no biggie). After 6 weeks we get another "discusion" with the desktop team. Guess what?? 6 more month before the upgrade!!! Nice wright???
XP? We should be so lucky...many of my colleagues are still using Windows 2000....
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p CodeProject MVP for 2010 - who'd'a thunk it!
