[PLUG] dumping unix for linux

[Carla Schroder]

On Monday 16 October 2006 10:56, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> 
> Sometimes the "warm and fuzzy experience" has to do with indirect (but 
> real) financial expenses...
> 
>  * avoidance of official IT infrastructure is a financial expense,
>    because it means that employees are having to spend time to
>    develop their own solutions, and usually not very efficiently.
> 
>  * employees who stovepipe their own IT solutions often do so using
>    tools that aren't designed with corporate security in mind.
>    whether the problem is information leaks or inbound viruses,
>    cleanup is a financial expense.
> 
>  * spending time answering questions from cranky users or addressing
>    problems introduced by software that doesn't work as most
>    employees think it should is a real financial cost.
> 
> ...but sometimes the cost isn't financial...
> 
>  * getting berated in management meetings or losing status in an
>    organization sometimes involves financial costs (less budget
>    next year), but often the cost is psychological.
> 
>  * there's also a high psychological price to pay by IT staffers
>    who perceive that their work is being dismissed by their
>    co-workers; it's harder to work with people in a "bad mood."
> 

Wow, I had no idea. All this time I thought it was because microsoft has the 
biggest hooter bar/bully budget. Carrot and stick. Swag for the PHBs, then 
strongarming if they don't take the hint.

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