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How do some of these people in IT get their A+? Are they bribing someone or providing them with some sort of carnel services in a back room somewhere?
If I started an IT service company and then walked into a business and told them that "Well, we don't want to support Microsoft SQL server on your new server (running Windows Server 2012 R2) because we don't know how to install it" I would be out of business in a week. Yet that is exactly what the IT service company that handles the place where I work is saying.
They want me to scrap eight months worth of work so they can sell us a "cloud" based product and presumably charge us a monthly fee to provide it. We are not a fortune 500 corporation with 200,000 employees!!! We are a non profit organization that helps disabled people with around 30 in house staff!!!!! This guy is a rat!!!!!
Part of the reason I went to work for this place was to assist them in getting their inventory and equipment donation system organized. The center already uses a "cloud" database for most of their data. The reason they don't use it to track inventory is because it would cost several thousand dollars for that company to add the modules that handle those functions.
The worst part of this is that the people who will ultimately make the decision to follow this moron into the ether have no idea how a server works. For us to not utilize our in house server, for an application that five people use only when they are in the building, but to puff it out into the magical unicorn "CLOUD" is FREAKING ASININE!!!!!!!!!!
The $10,000 "server" they just dropped in our rack is nothing more than a NAS that nobody can find anything on!!!
"Oh I put it on the F: drive last week". "Well.......where on the F: drive"? "<deer in the headlights>........Let me just email you a copy". </rant>
- I left work three hours early today.
- I will probably have an adult beverage this evening.
- I am off Mon-Tue (Vacation).
- I will be updating my resume in the next 96 hours.
- If anyone says the word "cloud" to me in the next few hours the gravy is finally going to slip off my biscuits and they are going to get a swift kick to the gentleman region.