So in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 3:25 pm
Yet another new software system was installed.
It is supposedly free, because a neighboring entity is paying for it & letting us share it. However, the installation was not free. It took maybe 2 solid weeks, spread out over a 3-month period or more, of IT people's time. Often 2 or 3 IT people at a time. It was all a case of "our server won't talk to your server", & none of this was mysterious; they knew this was going to happen from the start. Its why they usually when asked about sharing this kind of stuff say "no". At least, before the Regime Change, they did.
At one point I popped in a question, even though it could get me killed, "why is this not on the web?". Through bureaucratic channels of the new bureaucracy came the answer I had already gotten from the person of whom I asked it; "because this company, which has the market on this stuff cornered, doesn't have a web version".
So today I hear "they asked us if we want to be part of the pilot for their web version".
I think I heard the answer was "no". We haven't even got the "tried & true, once the servers let you in" version up & running yet.
It is supposedly free, because a neighboring entity is paying for it & letting us share it. However, the installation was not free. It took maybe 2 solid weeks, spread out over a 3-month period or more, of IT people's time. Often 2 or 3 IT people at a time. It was all a case of "our server won't talk to your server", & none of this was mysterious; they knew this was going to happen from the start. Its why they usually when asked about sharing this kind of stuff say "no". At least, before the Regime Change, they did.
At one point I popped in a question, even though it could get me killed, "why is this not on the web?". Through bureaucratic channels of the new bureaucracy came the answer I had already gotten from the person of whom I asked it; "because this company, which has the market on this stuff cornered, doesn't have a web version".
So today I hear "they asked us if we want to be part of the pilot for their web version".
I think I heard the answer was "no". We haven't even got the "tried & true, once the servers let you in" version up & running yet.