On Thursday, August 21, 2003, at 11:30 AM, Max Blanco wrote:

I hope you larded your letter with buzzwords like "redundant systems", "failsafe backups", etc.

No, I'd put that into a longer piece. My main point this morning was that this stuff is now referenced like inevitable, "force of nature"-type events that "just happen" to these poor organizations...instead of being the predictable outcome of poorly considered business decisions. I tried to stay at the philosophical level rather than the technical. If I could get people to believe that quality was as least as important as herd instinct when choosing a system, then would be a good time to bring up the details of sane configuration and management. ........................ Phillip Mills Multi-platform software development (416) 224-0714 -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml