The same goes for the VP who hired the consulting firm for Carrier
Corporation. He was later fired after getting a great deal on central
consulting for systems and network management. Everything was leased and
the consultants didn't see a reason for the Carrier Engineering staff to
use Alphas or Suns. Then, they too got a "great deal" on double the price,
leased Dell computers (low-end business class machines, not the $2000.00+
US ones, that well, these lower class ones were priced above). The
networking was a laugh too. The consulting firm convinced that same VP
(before he was fired) that usin some no-name brand, P.O.S. series of
routers and switches was far better than using Cisco equipment. When asked
about the savings, he was told by the consultants, "oh, you'll save about
10-20% over buying or leasing the Cisco equipment." One of the engineers
got a problem with his departmental router one day after the tiny hours the
consultants kept and decided to call the manufacturer to repair said issues
himself. First noticeable problem: international number, non-800. Second
problem: when reaching them, they did not speak English. Third: It was a
small custom builder/manufacturer out of Taiwan. Fourth and final: they had
difficulty finding their own staff person who wrote the code for the
router, let alone anyone who knew anything of that router series. True
story. Most people were wondering why Carrier was doing so bad. It was
dumb, money driven, hey it's Windows-based, morons who got put into control
somehow. This year is the first year since that VP was fired and lo and
behold: they are starting to rebound and actually hire more staff than do
massive plant layoffs and shutdowns. I hear next year that they are going
to try to get DEC Alphas and AMD Opterons in there for the engineers (Suns
use Opterons now too =/ ).
-John Boffemmyer IV
At 03:15 PM 6/26/2004, you wrote:
> > > They hired an incompetent consultant to decide what computers to get.
> > > He had an AA degree with a C average.
> > > They refused to let any of the instructors, all of whom
> > > have BAs, and most MAs, have any input.
>
>On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, Geoffrey Thomas wrote:
> > Who was he friendly with - with whom was he friendly -if you like ?
> > It's usually the case - all these rats network like hell.
>
>Do you mean like the time that they got us a "special deal" on
>PCs at twice the going rate?
>
>Equating college administrators to rats is an insult to rodents.
>
>--
>Grumpy Ol' Fred
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