Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Inside the mind of the enemy: the business analys
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> | They predict the future through a combination of careful wording, stating
> | the obvious in an interesting way, voodoo magic, and rubber chickens.
> | Most people don't take stock into what most business analysts say, but
> | the atypical pointy haired boss will buy right into what they say.
Actually, more like catbert or dogbert.
The main thing is that Business Analysts try to identify "best
practices" for an industry, based on both public and private
information about expendatures, processes, procedures, and other ways
that money is spent and how people are allocated and trained.
Linux and OSS often sneak under the radar. In 1996, most CIOs didn't
even know that they were using Linux, because Linux could be obtained
as a petty cash expense, and installation was usually done after hours,
and the only ongoing expenses that were "on the radar" would be the
electricity and network connection costs, and even those would have
been just a small percentage of other costs that it wouldn't even show
up on the screen.
Even when support contracts are acquired, staff is allocated, and
projects are properly funded, Linux often yields savings of as much as
80-90% according to some references.
When your IT budget is less than 20% of a divisions budget, and Linux
AND OSS is less than 20% of that budget, it is literally a blip on the
radar screen.
Unless someone starts "singing the praises of Linux" it's highly
unlikely that even second layer management would know or care that
their e-mail, web server, and security system are all powered by Linux.
> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/inside_the_mind_of_the_enemy_the_business_analyst
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