Comments on: The Customer is Always Idiotic http://lonesysadmin.net/2006/03/28/the-customer-is-always-idiotic/ im in ur data centrz patchin ur serverz Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:53:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: TSMExpert http://lonesysadmin.net/2006/03/28/the-customer-is-always-idiotic/#comment-14721 TSMExpert Fri, 08 Dec 2006 18:00:04 +0000 http://lonesysadmin.net/2006/03/24/the-customer-is-always-idiotic/#comment-14721 I totally agree with that. What is even more worrisome is that fortune 500 companies have apps running on hardware and software that is no longer supported and they wont upgrade because it makes them A LOAD OF CASH. I worked for IBM on an account and the customer (fortune 500) had numerous applications that made them millions per day running on HP 10.20 with oracle 7. The sad thing is they wont spend the money to have someone come upgrade it since it was made in house they have no good documentation on it...blah blah blah! So many companies are just a hardware failure away from losing millions if not their company it's sickening. Only banks take IT seriously, and even then they are not all perfect. I totally agree with that. What is even more worrisome is that fortune 500 companies have apps running on hardware and software that is no longer supported and they wont upgrade because it makes them A LOAD OF CASH. I worked for IBM on an account and the customer (fortune 500) had numerous applications that made them millions per day running on HP 10.20 with oracle 7. The sad thing is they wont spend the money to have someone come upgrade it since it was made in house they have no good documentation on it…blah blah blah! So many companies are just a hardware failure away from losing millions if not their company it’s sickening. Only banks take IT seriously, and even then they are not all perfect.

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