Re(1): Linux to get the boot at US Army Corps of Engineers?
Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 70.122.41.10]
on September 17, 2007 06:00 PM
A couple years ago, while I was in the Marine Corps, several IT shops kept running with unmanaged non-NMCI servers (including Linux and whatever the hell else they needed) as a "Legacy Enclave" or something similar. Inflexibility of server options and high price of NMCI managed servers eventually drove the construction of a few new large data centers to host "Legacy" applications.
Anyway, the Marine Corps wasn't at all willing to drop everything and convert to Windows, so they spent their own money to build their own data centers and probably let NMCI move into the old ones. NMCI for the most part only took over desktop support/deployment and just our exchange and fileservers. Win-win, we consolidated our own gear, and Marines aren't punished by managing exchange ;)
I imagine any department of the government will end up doing about the same when faced with these lame IT management deals.
Also, you're lucky, many people have to work with up to three seperate desktops due to security reasons, but two are not uncommon in certain areas even before NMCI.
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Re(1): Linux to get the boot at US Army Corps of Engineers?
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 70.122.41.10] on September 17, 2007 06:00 PMAnyway, the Marine Corps wasn't at all willing to drop everything and convert to Windows, so they spent their own money to build their own data centers and probably let NMCI move into the old ones. NMCI for the most part only took over desktop support/deployment and just our exchange and fileservers. Win-win, we consolidated our own gear, and Marines aren't punished by managing exchange ;)
I imagine any department of the government will end up doing about the same when faced with these lame IT management deals.
Also, you're lucky, many people have to work with up to three seperate desktops due to security reasons, but two are not uncommon in certain areas even before NMCI.
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