New IT guru boss arrives...
At the thoroughly dodgy net company I was working at and inspects the company showpiece, the glass encased driver room which juts into the foyer impressing the shit out of visitors.
There's screens lined up down the front of each stack, all playing the matrix screen saver and a bunch of servers and pcs all blinking away happily.
He goes in and starts to look around.
As we watch expectantly, he starts to speak:
"Erm... most of these (very expensive) boxes appear to do nothing but drive the screen savers? And teh USP is not connected to anything. And the entire room seems to be running off a bank of powerboards all plugged into one socket? And the aircon water reservoir is suspended over everything? And... and... at least five of these things are just downloading movies and music?"
Yes, he'd discovered the secret, that management didn't have a clue what they were signing for as long as it looked good.
Almost everything was running off one server, all the rest, at least two dozen and a couple of hundred thousand dollars worth of stuff, were our toys.
We waited... waited some more... then breathed a sigh of relief when he finally smiled.
The fun and games went on for at least another three years after that.
( difficultchild, Fri 25 Sep 2009, 9:45, Reply)