Archive for January, 2007
IT & condescendence
14 January 2007The Information Technology field is filled with people who have the attitude that, because they know a whole lot about technology, they are better than or smarter than the average user. What it really boils down to is this: We all have different skill sets. I work in a college. I doubt that the Dean [...]
Cisco vs. HP Procurve
8 January 2007“I woke up this morning, saw the news and laughed in your face.” In 2000, these exact words were spoken to me by a Cisco representative. Not a reseller, mind you, but an actual Cisco employee. In 1999, while working as an Associate Director of Information Technology at a college in upstate New York, where [...]
Ok… so Exchange 2007 isn’t *all* good.
1 January 2007First off, I should preface this by saying that, while I really, really like Exchange 2007, I never thought that everything about Exchange 2007 was 100% positive. There will be some deployment challenges, to be sure. But, Microsoft cut some pretty important corners that just make no sense. I read somewhere that the Exchange team [...]