This is even better for the pointy-haired bosses out there...
Mike
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Do something for the Flag. . . Burn a protestor!
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From: "Robert L. McMillin" <rlm_at_syseca-us.com>
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: ASE/Cluster Nomenclature - Humorous
Better still:
High Availability Digital Enterprise Servers
It has the advantage that (1) every letter stands for a real word, and
(2) it works in "Enterprise", a much-used buzzword. It's always useful
to be buzzword-compliant, especially if you're a space-absorbing droid.
We had a first-hand lesson in this last year. Our parent company is
French, which is to say, management above the project level is clueless
at best. It also means that our parent company periodically sends us
their wretched refuse. We have one such expat who used to be in charge
of our internal software "product". The sneer quotes are because he
never really cared to productize it, even though every project in house
was using it. He dreamed away the days in his corner office. If he
ever worked, it was by mistake. Sensing his job was in danger unless he
appeared to do *something*, he decided to make our train control system
OLE compliant. A number of us (Americans) had simultaneous brain
hemorrhages from laughing; let me see, what customer asked to control
trains from Microsoft Word?
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Received on Wed Sep 17 1997 - 14:14:34 NZST