On Tue, May 09, 2000 at 05:44:57PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
You're talking about a product sold under the advertising promise that little to no training is necessary, and with default behavior that makes it TRIVIAL to write crap like this.
i guess this is the gist of my argument. companies should not be buying into solutions that require "little or no training". computer networks/applications are getting more and more complicated. if they think they can save money on salaries by getting software that doesn't require a knowledgeable person to set it up, well, then they get what they pay for.
But as it is, even large companies that don't use Outlook had expensive damage, because of Microsoft shipping complex unmanageable cruft-accumulated bloatware that can't be locked down very well even by the top experts in the field without removing functionality that Microsoft proclaims to the world that you need to go Where You Want To Go Today.
crappy software is a fact of life.
Where I want to go today is to work without having to recover 1,300 files damaged by two idiots double-clicking something they shouldn't have.
Ask CBS' network folks where they want to go today. They'll probably tell you "to Redmond, with AK-47s".
probably best to take those AK-47s and go after the bonehead who made the decision to use the crappy software. -- [ Jim Mercer jim@reptiles.org +1 416 506-0654 ] [ Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood ] [ Don't be fooled by cheap Finnish imitations; BSD is the One True Code. ]