Of course I don’t actually think they get turned on by the Microsoft logo, it was just a bad joke.
We just get frustrated when the higher-ups force in a new expensive enterprise product when we have already told them we can easily implement support for an objectively superior free and open source industry standard alternative. But I guess it fails their enterprise support criteria, which most of the time is worthless (Microsoft should be pretty good on this part at least). Most of the time when we ask why they chose <Corporate product> we just get a blank stare back, as if there was no other alternative. The same happens when we ask for an exit strategy. And afterwards we are doomed to work with a barely working undocumented API.
Yeah, of course, I just figured it’s worth pointing out that it’s not such an irrational decision within their own individual short term logics.
My father used to work for an American software company, providing services for the Norwegian state. I remember one day he came home from work complaining he had to use some stupid system he didn’t want or need, just because his employer had managed to sell it to the state and they needed to demonstrate its usefulness… I suspect that kind of stuff happens a lot.
They’re like old people being fooled by car salesmen.
Of course I don’t actually think they get turned on by the Microsoft logo, it was just a bad joke.
We just get frustrated when the higher-ups force in a new expensive enterprise product when we have already told them we can easily implement support for an objectively superior free and open source industry standard alternative. But I guess it fails their enterprise support criteria, which most of the time is worthless (Microsoft should be pretty good on this part at least). Most of the time when we ask why they chose <Corporate product> we just get a blank stare back, as if there was no other alternative. The same happens when we ask for an exit strategy. And afterwards we are doomed to work with a barely working undocumented API.
Yeah, of course, I just figured it’s worth pointing out that it’s not such an irrational decision within their own individual short term logics.
My father used to work for an American software company, providing services for the Norwegian state. I remember one day he came home from work complaining he had to use some stupid system he didn’t want or need, just because his employer had managed to sell it to the state and they needed to demonstrate its usefulness… I suspect that kind of stuff happens a lot.
They’re like old people being fooled by car salesmen.