Sujet : Re: Crowdstrike fiasco
De : nospam (at) *nospam* example.net (D)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.miscDate : 20. Jul 2024, 22:29:44
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Organisation : i2pn2 (i2pn.org)
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On Sat, 20 Jul 2024, Rich wrote:
The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
On 20/07/2024 14:44, rek2 hispagatos wrote:
On 2024-07-19, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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On Fri, 19 Jul 2024, Woozy Song wrote:
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Curiously, when I made a post to Reddit linux group, it got deleted
immediately. I thought they would be gloating that Windows got shafted.
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I'm gloating! I repeatedly tell a potential customer to change from
windows, and I think so far they asked me for an offer and an opinion 3
times (they had 3 security incidents), and yet they have never purchased
my services and they keep running into these problems. I'm gloating so
much. Sadly I don't think they will ever switch from their beloved
Microsoft though.
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I do use them often as an example of what happens if you have a crappy
IT-manager so I do derive benefits from their incompetence though! =)
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+1 I hope this serves as a lesson.
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No, it wont.
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You dont understan middle management in a company.
The IT managers career is best served by spending shitloads of money
with a company like crowdstrike which offers impressive legal guarantees
in its contracts.
Not by implementing a policy with some 'nerdy operating system' that his
boss doesn't know how to use. And developing an IT department to service
and support it.
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You can tell those who have never worked with/in/near a large corporate
bureaucracy or govt bureaucracy IT department. Those who have never
seen behind the curtain believe this will result in some kind of
change.
Oh it definitely can lead to change. It is just up to you to be smart, manipulative, not-caring or bold to make it happen.
My favourite strategy when working a behemoths was to just say "f*ck you" and do what I wanted without telling any sr manager and it served me extremely well as well as my customers! =)
Then, when I became my own, I do grant that it is somewhat of an uphill battle at times, but that's part of the challenge and makes it feel better when you do manage to kick out Microsoft.
I recently managed to kick out Microsoft in favour of home-grown service based on classical physical servers, and it does give me immense satisfaction.
That being said however, it is not always easy, and many are the people who just swim along until they reach retirement age. But horses for courses as the saying goes! =)