tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7832661522460057295.post-15277785164589277332007-03-01T03:30:00.000-08:002007-03-01T04:17:42.514-08:00Sound of trumpets...<br />But wait? The king is wearing no clothes?<br /><br />I presented a technology vision for our modest non-profit to the Powers that Be (PTB)<br /><br />The PTB were unimpressed.<br /><br />I am unimpressed myself, with the Microsoft environment.<br />(They were just unimpressed with me, I think :-)<br /><br />Vista doesn't go where I need it to go. There is a lot of smoke around manageability,but we're still talking about a system that is at its core not centrally managed. There's an Active Directory, and its a good thing its "Active" because it has to scurry around and customize a bazillion mystery settings on each desktop to make them all play nice.<br /><br />The whole thing strikes me as a reactively designed house of cards.<br /><em>Mega-Customer X</em> "I want to turn menus blue on Tuesday"<br /><em>Microsoft</em> "Set the registry value adsfasdfasfdsf to 1"<br /><br />The recent DST update showed exactly how kludgey the whole thing is.<br /><em>Good news:</em> Yes there is a centrally administered update for Exchange.<br /><em>Bad news:</em> How does it work? It generates a batch file that is run on a client, impersonating each user and correcting their calendar items. Total kludge. And slow as heck. Single threaded <em>(eeeeeeeeeeeeewww!)</em> Microsoft addressed that by releasing a Virtual machine, so you can run the kludgey batch file on more "virtual processors"<br /><br /><em>Just STOP people!</em><br /><br />So... Where does my meandering rant go?<br />The new version of MS Office has a "server" vision. Yes it is no longer good enough to put files in the file system, files now need a Sharepoint server.... And perhaps we'll get there, too, but it won't happen because anyone I am trying to sell it to will "get" the vision.<br /><br />More glazed eyes than an iguana convention...<br /><br />Ah, well, back to looking at "open source" for document management :-)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7832661522460057295-1527778516458927733?l=tinkersfolly.blogspot.com'/></div>p1nghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02041554682535515096noreply@blogger.com0