Jeff Hellige wrote:
>On Sat, 7 Apr 2001, Jeff Hellige wrote:
>
>> Just wait until ES/NMCI starts taking over the federal
>> government computers and networks. Then anything that isn't supplied
>> by them and isn't running Win2000 will be considered 'legacy' and
>> basically unsupported.
>
>What is ES/NMCI?
EDS (my mistype) is Ross Perot's company and they now have a
signed contract with the Dept. of Navy to take over the LANs
[Accurate representation of how delightful it is to work with EDS,
snipped]
I was (and am) involved with the deployment of code to UBS/WDR/whatever
they're calling themselves today, which is another shop that outsourced
"operations" to EDS.
The people at UBS hate it. The vendors hate it. In fact the only people
who seem to like it are the EDS drones, who work 9 - 4:59, five days a week.
Some EDS policies we've collided with:
- "We reboot all Unix servers once a week. This makes our NT servers more
reliable, so obviously it will do the same for older technology like
Solaris".
- "We can't accept this Microsoft-signed DLL that's distributed with VS as
a bug fix because it's not part of our standard distribution".
- "We can't supply you with an 800 MHz machine for these floating point
intensive jobs of yours. We'll give you a dual 400 MHz instead. What
do you mean 'individual floating point instructions don't benefit from
multithreading'? You must not understand multithreading."
Most people at UBS have already started hording torches and pitchforks for
the
day that the contract expires...
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Chris Kennedy
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Received on Sat Apr 07 2001 - 11:59:05 BST