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Re: What should I say to a *nix community?

On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 08:35 -0700, Nathan Andelin wrote:
Jon Paris wrote:
In other words there is a little less "management by airline
magazine" going on in than in the USA.

That's funny enough to be true. It reminds me of a CEO of a large US
based manufacturing company that returned from a cruise where he had
been hobnobbing with other CEOs. He called the IT Director into his
ofice and said, "I think we need an Oracle". Wanting to please his
boss, the IT Director initiated a project to convert from AS/400 to
"Oracle", which turned out like the Waste Management / SAP fiasco.
After much pain, they switched back to their original green-screen
interfaces, and OS/400 database.

I'd better not say the name of the company - in order to protect the
innocent.

Nathan.

I remember hearing the top tech guy from a large bank. He had a
recurring nightmare: he is sitting in his office, and in walks a VP
carrying a copy of Byte.

Cheers,
Terry.



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