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Thou shall not Gerrymander or Balkanize
The history of UNIX is a history of struggle. Departments were given hardware and admins, and each one deployed their own solution. This created a variability in quality whereas your customer was only as empowered as his UNIX guru was talented. This problem NIXES your (stupid) Number 6!

After UNIX balkanized with all of these "islands" of influence, there was *some* effort at combining things. But since most people (read managers) didn't understand UNIX, they punted - promoting questionable techies, who had their own biases - to try and combine the whole. They made a mess of things, so new groups followed the tried and true method of balkanization.

When one group becomes more powerful, they Gerrymander the other groups - thus consolidating their "power". So a group that contains some average to below average admins becomes De facto architects for the entire enterprise - proposing infrastructure that is of low quality, but having the power to push it through.

Thus is the sad tale of UNIX. Balkanize with department-level IT, and then pick (arbitrary) favorites with Gerrymandering. When people ask - why isn't UNIX as prevalent as Windoze if its SO MUCH BETTER - you have your answer.
Posted by: Roger Ramjet   Posted on: 04/11/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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Thou shall not Gerrymander or Balkanize  Roger Ramjet | 04/11/06
Thou shall Collaborate  Roger Ramjet | 04/12/06
Thou shall follow Dr. Demming's continual improvement process  Roger Ramjet | 04/12/06
Thou shall understand and use matrix organization  Roger Ramjet | 04/12/06
Never make changes on Friday or before going on Holiday  PeterGermany | 04/12/06
most broken commandment  alphawiz | 05/03/06
Thou shalt reference thy disk packs through three layers of indirection  DelbertPGH | 04/12/06
Mike Cox?  Roger Ramjet | 04/12/06
1st command  harrisjw | 04/12/06
Thall Shalt Not Commit Pointer Math  Tim Carpenter | 04/12/06
And also  Roger Ramjet | 04/12/06
Thou shalt not buy equipment based upon price alone  pheible | 04/12/06
Do not believe that you will make a better product selection decision ...  Uriah_z | 04/12/06
Thou shalt not write down thine passwords  srivera@... | 04/12/06
....and thou shalt not use birthdates or social security numbers  wh0zatguy | 04/12/06
Thou shalt not allow users to click on links in email messages  wh0zatguy | 04/12/06
I work for IT in State of CA gov't; let's see...  mgardner | 04/12/06
Add an eleventh commandment  bly_jdm | 04/12/06
Thou Shalt Not  Real World | 04/13/06
Thou Shalt Readeth thy Book on Security Best Practices  coffeenite | 04/13/06
Message has been deleted.  Been_Done_Before | 04/13/06
Did i miss something?  Been_Done_Before | 04/19/06
Thou Shalt Not Assume You Know Everything  Shelendrea | 04/13/06
Thy shalt test thy backups  crocd | 04/13/06
People in IT do everything well ...  Anton Philidor | 04/13/06
Which is usually  Shelendrea | 04/14/06
Thou shalt remember the 7 P's:  rh6866 | 04/13/06
Huh, these two don't quite jibe.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 04/13/06
Thou shalt not use Windows  dylanknightrogers | 04/23/06
WinAdmins == Incompetent??  techguyjames@... | 05/10/06
hmm  hopefulcoder | 05/13/06
next time let me  bluestreak_z | 05/02/06
"shalt" is a word  alphawiz | 05/03/06
First 3 IT commandments  wbchaney | 05/09/06

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