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  • Subject: RE: The future of computing
  • From: "John Taylor" <john.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 21:25:36 -0600
  • Importance: Normal

Jim,

I vote that we grant you official status as the list's referee. I'd even
chip in for a black & white striped jersey, with a midrange.com logo on the
front, and Kilgore emblazoned across the back. :)


-john


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
> [mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of James W. Kilgore
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 8:36 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: The future of computing
>
>
> John,
>
> We all love to hate the one's that we are closest to.  Or is it that we
> hate to love them? I never could get it straight.  All I know is that
> the very same quality that makes one (or a machine) desirable is the
> very same quality that will make them a PITA!
>
> IMHO, whether one is bashing IBM or MS or Oracle or Sun or ?, it amounts
> to no more that letting off steam.
>
> And sometimes it can be really, really, funny!  None of us live in an
> isolationist world.  Sometimes we just wish that the unruly rat de jour
> would leave the ship.
>
> http://home.xnet.com/~raven/Sysadmin/ASR.Quotes.html made my day!  Not
> that I'm a sys admin, I just feel for them.
>

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