Re: What should I say to a *nix community?

["Nick Selvaggio" <nselvaggio@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Did the IT Director lose his job? :)

Nick

"Nathan Andelin" <nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> > Jon Paris wrote:
> > In other words there is a little less "management by airline
> > magazine" going on in than in the USA.
>
> That's funny enough to be true.  It reminds me of a CEO of a large US 
> based manufacturing company that returned from a cruise where he had been 
> hobnobbing with other CEOs.  He called the IT Director into his ofice and 
> said, "I think we need an Oracle".  Wanting to please his boss, the IT 
> Director initiated a project to convert from AS/400 to "Oracle", which 
> turned out like the Waste Management / SAP fiasco. After much pain, they 
> switched back to their original green-screen interfaces, and OS/400 
> database.
>
> I'd better not say the name of the company - in order to protect the 
> innocent.
>
> Nathan.