[Ti] IT Departments (was: Re: Windows is good advice for the consultants who support it ...

[Chris Olson]

On Jan 18, 2006, at 5:27 PM, Ardeshir Mehta wrote:

> Exactly. There should not be any *need* for an IT department, and  
> all the costs associated with it.

So you're just going to have your users set up client/server systems  
including file, web, and email?  Manage and deploy infrastructure- 
wide controlled software updates?  Develop and deploy their own  
systems intrusion and security policies?  Manage their own netbooted  
clients by giving everybody in the organization root access to the  
server, and put in bids for their own hardware as they see fit?  And  
if a router or gateway goes down the person sitting closest to the  
box reaches over, pulls the power plug out of the wall, plugs it back  
in and prays that a reboot "fixes" it?

They have a word for this:

chaos |ˈkāˌäs| |ˌkeɪˈɑs| |ˌkeɪˈɔs| |ˌkeɪɒs|
noun
complete disorder and confusion

Are Mac users, in general, really that out of touch with how the real  
world runs and uses computers and how networking systems work?  Do  
all Mac users assume a network consists of two Macs in the same room  
and an AirPort Base Station hooked to a DSL line?  I've run into Mac  
users who can't even get THAT to work!
-- 
Chris

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