marc wrote:
Grow up, kid. Business-oriented work is NOT based on "let's slap a few
scrounged boards and breathe life into it." You buy premium hardware,
with VERY good warranties and service agreements and that costs.
Being in a few places which decided to get business-class hardware or
services, I had the opportunity to be on the receiving end of "good
warranties" quite a few times. While there's no doubt some companies are
golden -- the kind of companies you could trust more than assigning an
in-house person on the task -- most of the business service around is
mediocrity with a cherry on top.
- What good is having a business account at your ISP, if you can get to
a service person nearly without waiting on-hold but they're not really
competent? And is the fuzzy feeling of being business-class worth paying
much more for much less bandwidth?
- What good is getting a business-class Cisco router instead of a
consumer-grade router, only to later waste a bunch of work-hours
figuring out that a new PC couldn't join your work network cause your
router was backstabbing you (Its license was limited to 10 machines!) ?
- What good is hosting a server at a major ISP like a serious business
does, if they never actually perform the backup service they offered?
They answer phone calls promptly on their business support line, but
they simply forget to do what's asked of them!
- What good is buying a RedHat Enterprise Server license if, when you
file a trivial service request, it just sits there and gets bounced to a
different service person every few months?
If I'd be judging from those past experiences of "flying business", I'd
have to seriously consider: Perhaps if I'd shell out for a slick
super-reliable rack-mountable server from Dell/HP/Sun and then my
hard-drive starts misbehaving, I'd have to drive it to their technical
center, leave it there and they wouldn't even copy over my data to the
new drive -- and on top of it, it'd take just as much as it would in a
consumer computer shop?
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