[TriLUG] How not to run a network

Dan Monjar dan at daijin.dissimulo.com
Thu Feb 17 11:11:13 EST 2005


sholton at mindspring.com wrote:
> 
> The 'powers that be' seldom make "foolish" decisions. If their 
> decision appears foolish, then you haven't understood their
> decision. If a PHB sees a solution which requires 10 people, 
> and a second which can be done by one, he'd be a fool to 
> decimate his own organization by selecting the smaller set
> of underlings.If a PHB has to choose between two candidates,
> one with experience deploying a M$ web solution for $1 million,
> and the other with experience deploying an Apache web solution
> for $10 thousand, he'll choose the one with experience handling
> bigger budgets.
> 

Or he could choose to free up the other 9 people to work the other 
projects in his pipeline, using the $990,000 in budget money he saved.

But I guess that was the point, wasn't it?
-- 
Dan Monjar



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