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[linux] Un livre intéressant
New book -The Unix Guide to Defenestration
Jul 30th, 17:55 UTC
Available now from winface.com and on ebay this book
represents something new and different in Unix advocacy and
data center management advice.
This book is probably the first serious attempt at answering
the most fundamental question affecting Unix/Linux users:
why do most people seem to prefer an expensive and largely
disfunctional desktop, and even server, environment to one
that works cheaply and effectively?
The answer is that most organizations get poor systems
support because the incentives given systems people favor this
type of continuous low level failure. Most systems projects fail,
and most day to day service delivery falls below expectations,
because promotions and new opportunities come from budget
and control growth and you don't, as an IT manager, grow your
budget or span of control by delivering cheap, effective,
services -doing that would actually decrease your visibility,
budget, and promotability in the company. Instead you adopt
Windows throughout the enterprise knowing that it provides a
rich source of growth in staffing and budget without much risk
that your qualifications or ability will be questioned as a result
of the frustrations this produces for your users.
Unix itself is not the answer to this - but the mindset
embedded in the technology is. So if you're a systems manager,
or work for one, who sees the pursuit of personal success
through professional failure as both parasitic and dishonest
this book tells you what do about it.
The basic idea is to create a bottom up revolution that will
eventually align corporate and personal goals for the data
center and those working in it - creating a symbiotic
relationship with the user community that reflects the data
center's natural role as a profit center instead of a cost sink.
Most of the text deals with the "how" of this process. In so
doing it provides dozens of detailed cost comparisons, mini
case studies, and related analyses all of which show Unix at
about one third the long term cost of Wintel and many of
which illustrate important insights into the nature and
appropriate management of the data center.
If you are a Unix user, sysadmin, or DBA then this book is
your opportunity to understand the actions and motivations of
the people whose positions enable them to make and enforce
bad systems decisions - and to influence the opinions and
attitudes of user management to get those decisions changed.
--
Bon amusement,
Alain
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