[SunHELP] Off topic?: moan about Sun management

[Kenneth Dunn]

I read the following at: 
http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/hardware/story/0,10801,75921,00.html 

it was in a market-o-gram sent out by Sun.

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Viewing the increasingly complex networked computing environment from an IT 
manager's perspective, Papadopoulos acknowledged the high cost of ownership 
confronting user companies and proposed that Sun will solve the problem 
with technology, not people. With as much as 80% of a typical IT budget 
being spent on people operating a company's IT infrastructure, vendors can 
offer users an array of solutions, he said. "You can go after this by going 
after services," Papadopoulos said, referring to IBM's acquisition of 
services firm PwC Consulting. Or a company can decide "I'm going to 
engineer that out," he said. Sun's focus will be on the latter and on 
technologies that advance data center automation, according to Papadopoulos.

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I'm sitting here thinking things like:

Oh that is nice. Reduce the number of partly pointless people with more 
pointless hardware running yet more pointless software. And pay for 
something we have been promised but not getting. Ok I'm a cynical bastard 
at the best of times but this whole services crock that is being pushed by 
the marketdroids is just making me sick. If things worked as claimed and 
didn't cost an arm and a leg things would be sweet and  Sun management 
wouldn't have felt the need to give a big "up yours" to 11% percentage of 
its staff ?

As much as I love DEC equipment there aren't that many DEC shops left in a 
country of just under 4M people so there is no point is pretending I'm 
doing it for the purpose of getting employment. I've got a feeling that 
investing any time and money in learning anything about Sun hardware and 
software for anything other than fun is going to be a waste of resources 
too. Am I being more paranoid than usual ?

Thank you for your time. I've got my fire suit on if you want to chew me 
out in private <luser at xtra.co.nz>