Re: the dread factor and working with multiple vendors

DA Morgan wrote:
> hpuxrac wrote:
> > Do you want to be threatened by people who on this forum try to
> > repeatedly assert that only having 1 vendor to work with is better than
> > multiple vendors?
> >
> > You might want to read this recent post
> >
> > http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2006/12/28/the-dread-factor-multi-vendor-support-unbreakable-linux/
>
> Threatened?
> Perhaps that's why so many in Texas have guns.
> Fear of usenet posters with a different opinion.
> Explains almost everything. ;-)

My experience has been that it's usually people with limited experience who promote such opinions. People who have relevant enterprise experience with multiple vendor configurations which almost invariable occur in companies of more than marginal size learn how to navigate.

When people who repeatedly assert the "one stop shopping" approach are asked to support their assertions with detailed experiences in relevant situations it's usually silence that is returned. That or some non relevant comment as above. Received on Thu Dec 28 2006 - 18:00:15 CST