RE: [SAGE] Servers per SysAdmin

[Yves Dorfsman <yves@zioup.com>]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2001, Todd Williams wrote:

> For some reason, suits are required to mindlessly quote them every so
> often.  (It must be the managerial lobotomy they go thru).  In many ways,
> Gartner is worse that Microsoft in the way that certain people in power
> mindlessly trust them, no matter what they say.
>
> Their power to destroy companies or other entities as a self-fulfilling
> prophecy of what they say is just too scary.

Agreed, Gartner is becoming a sort of religion, which is followed by more
and more people.

Now it seems to be ok to say: "I'm not technical, I don't understand any
of these technical stuff, but Gartner says...". Typically this is followed
by a decision from management that goes right against your technical
recomendation.

No engineering firm, no hospital would have somebody that only did an MBA
make an important "technical" decision...


Yves.
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Yves Dorfsman                                             yves@zioup.com
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