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tetard is currently certified at Apprentice level.

Name: Phil Regnauld
Member since: 2000-04-04 20:34:54
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Homepage: www.bsd-dk.dk/~regnauld

Notes: I hate Notes.

I'm a frog that migrated from France to Denmark.

I use FreeBSD in my daily job as systems and network administrator.

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5 Apr 2000 »

05-04-2000

Vendor Syndrome, aka, CYA syndrome day

Been fighting for the last couple of weeks against a crateload of old-fashioned, product oriented colleagues that believe that the only way to run a production networkis to have vendor supported (i.e.: contract) hardware and software.

There's nothing more discouraging than hearing otherwise technically competent people saying "You can't run a mission critical network [whatever that means] on free software".

So instead of looking back on 6 months of sweat I've put in to get a decent SMTP and DNS backbone in here, now we have to go through a "requirement definition" and "solution decision" process to evaluate what technology and product best suits a task I've already implemented.

The peeves of the day: FUD, generation gap, Cover Your Ass politics

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tetard certified tetard as Apprentice
tetard certified phk as Master
tetard certified eivind as Master
tetard certified rwatson as Journeyer
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tetard certified grog as Master
tetard certified softweyr as Master
tetard certified imp as Master
tetard certified obrien as Master
tetard certified asmodai as Journeyer
tetard certified ker as Apprentice

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